Medievalists.net » Galen http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Make-Up and Medicine in the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/13/make-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/13/make-middle-ages/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 02:36:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=55404 A look at cosmetics and make-up in the Middle Ages.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/13/make-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Neither ill nor healthy: The intermediate state between health and disease in medieval medicine http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/16/neither-ill-nor-healthy-the-intermediate-state-between-health-and-disease-in-medieval-medicine/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/16/neither-ill-nor-healthy-the-intermediate-state-between-health-and-disease-in-medieval-medicine/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:01:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38092 Paradoxically, however, the notion of an intermediate state between health and disease also has a long history, harking back, at least, to the times of Galen. The question of the existence of such a state and the utility and necessity for physicians to acknowledge it, was particularly hotly debated in the Middle Ages...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/16/neither-ill-nor-healthy-the-intermediate-state-between-health-and-disease-in-medieval-medicine/feed/ 0 Light through the dark ages: The Arabist contribution to Western ophthalmology http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/28/light-through-the-dark-ages-the-arabist-contribution-to-western-ophthalmology/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/28/light-through-the-dark-ages-the-arabist-contribution-to-western-ophthalmology/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:06:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36772 Because blindness was a major cause of morbidity in the medieval Arab world, as is the case in the developing world today, Arabist physicians developed much exposure to ophthalmological conditions, and nearly every major medical work written at the time had a chapter on diseases of the eye.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/28/light-through-the-dark-ages-the-arabist-contribution-to-western-ophthalmology/feed/ 0 Technologies of authority in the medical classroom in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/12/technologies-of-authority-in-the-medical-classroom-in-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/12/technologies-of-authority-in-the-medical-classroom-in-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:32:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36442 In this paper I would like to explore the strategies developed by the university medical master towards the recognition and establishment of authority for himself and for those contemporary authors who, like himself, worked within the medieval Studia. I would develop this possibility by analysing a uniquely academic product, the medical commentary.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/12/technologies-of-authority-in-the-medical-classroom-in-the-thirteenth-and-fourteenth-centuries/feed/ 0 Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning or The Triumph of Greens http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/31/italian-renaissance-food-fashioning-or-the-triumph-of-greens/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/31/italian-renaissance-food-fashioning-or-the-triumph-of-greens/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:16:23 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=21345 Conceptions of food in the Renaissance were also still influenced by the humoral-Galenic theory, which said that to keep the different 'humors' of the body in balance, a good diet had to be the result of foods balancing the moist/water and the dry/air, the warm/fire and the cold/earth, recalling again the four Aristotelian elements.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/31/italian-renaissance-food-fashioning-or-the-triumph-of-greens/feed/ 0 Beliefs about Human Sexual Function in the Middle Ages and Renaissance http://www.medievalists.net/2009/01/31/beliefs-about-human-sexual-function-in-the-middle-ages-and-renaissance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2009/01/31/beliefs-about-human-sexual-function-in-the-middle-ages-and-renaissance/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:53:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=2187 We want to examine the major beliefs about human sexual anatomy and fuction that prevailed during the Middle Ages and Renaissance and some of the medical practices that were related to these beliefs.

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