The Female Body in Medieval Europe: Theories of Physicality versus Practical Gynecology
The Female Body in Medieval Europe: Theories of Physicality versus Practical Gynecology By Adam Blumenberg Published Online (2008) Introduction: During the late Middle…
Peter’s Medicine – lessons from the 13th century
Peter of Spain lived out a long and fruitful life as a scholar known for his works on logic, as a scholar-physician who wrote widely and was sought by his contemporaries as their doctor, and as a churchman so successful that he became Pope
The Black Death in early Ottoman territories: 1347-1550
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the possible impact of the Black Death on the early Ottoman society. Firstly, a temporal and spatial analysis of the outbreaks was established using contemporary Ottoman, Byzantine and Latin sources.
Etiology of the Dancing Plague
Etiology of the Dancing Plague O’Neill, Daniel InterCulture: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall (2005) Abstract The phenomenon of dancing mania (also…
The Indexing Of Medieval Women: The Feminine Tradition Of Medical Wisdom In Anglo-Saxon England And The Metrical Charms
The Indexing Of Medieval Women: The Feminine Tradition Of Medical Wisdom In Anglo-Saxon England And The Metrical Charms Sanburn, Keri Elizabeth Master’s Thesis, Florida State…
Medieval Charitable Institutions and Intellectual Impairment c.1066–1600
Medieval Charitable Institutions and Intellectual Impairment c.1066–1600 By Timothy Stainton Journal on Developmental Disabilities, Vol.8:2 (2001) Abstract: This article examines the question of…
Disfigurement, Disability, and Dis-integration in Sturlunga saga
Disfigurement, Disability, and Dis-integration in Sturlunga saga By Lois Bragg Alvíssmál, Vol. 4 (1994 [1995]) Introduction: Near the end of Sturlunga saga, an…
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: a paleopathological and paleodietary perspective
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: apaleopathological and paleodietary perspective Yoder, Cassady J. PhD Thesis, Texas A&M University,…
Pope Joan: a recognizable syndrome
The story of the female pope first appeared in a manuscript by friar Jean de Mailly in about 1250 A.D. During the late Middle Ages and Reformation dozens of people wrote about this scandal, many of them Franciscan and Dominican friars or Protestants, and their stories were widely believed.
Early Medieval Crystal Amulets: Secular Instruments of Protection and Healing
The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing I: Images and Objects Sponsor: AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study…
Loadstones Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Lapidary Cures, Midwives, and Manuals of Popular Healing in Medieval and Early Modern England
Loadstones Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Lapidary Cures, Midwives, and Manuals of Popular Healingin Medieval and Early Modern England Harris, Nichola E. (SUNY–Ulster) The Sacred…
Illness without doctors: medieval systems of healthcare in Scotland
When most common folk fell ill they consulted a local healer, either a man (‘cunning man’), but more usually a woman (‘cunning woman’), with a practical knowledge of medicinal herbs, magical amulets and charms
Medieval advice to pregnant mothers: don’t drink water, have wine instead
Medieval medical opinion believed that foods could play an important role in the health and behaviour of people – certain kinds of foods, if eaten too much, could cause illness or cause a person to become depressed or melancholy.
Early Prints Depicting Eyeglasses
Early Prints Depicting Eyeglasses By Charles E. Letocha and John Dreyfus Archives of ophthalmology Vol.120:11 (2002) Introduction: Much of the history of eyeglasses…
The medical resources and practice of the crusader states in Syria and Palestine 1096-1193
The medical resources and practice of the crusader states in Syria and Palestine 1096-1193 Woodings, Ann F. Medical History, Vol.15:3 (1971) Abstract At the…
Windows on a medieval world: medieval piety as reflected in the lapidary literature of the Middle Ages
These stone-lists, which expounded the magical and medicinal powers of stones, enjoyed a broad circulation throughout Europe both as Latin scientific writings as well as popular vernacular medicinal and religious texts.
Flowers and Fruits: Two Thousand Years of Menstrual Regulation
Flowers and Fruits: Two Thousand Years of Menstrual Regulation By Etienne van de Walle Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol.28:2 (1997) Introduction: Despite recent…
Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning or The Triumph of Greens
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.
The Leech and the Physician: Biology, Etymology, and Medical Practice with Hirudinea medicinalis
The Leech and the Physician: Biology, Etymology, and Medical Practice with Hirudinea medicinalis By Robert N. Mory, David Mindell and David A. Bloom…
An Egyptian doctor at the Comnenian court
An Egyptian doctor at the Comnenian court By Krijnie N. Ciggaar Nea Rhome Vol. 2 (2005) Introduction: One of the attractions of studying…
Medieval medical malpractice: the dicta and the dockets
have selected seven legal cases from the surviving documents of medieval London, ranging over the 150-year period from the mid-14th century through the late 15th.
The Italian Doctor during the Black Death
The Italian Doctor during the Black Death By Quinn Wilson Vexillum: The Undergraduate Journal of Classical and Medieval Studies, Vol.1 (2011) Introduction: Italy…
Complexio / Complexion. Categorizing Individual Natures 1250-1600
Complexio / Complexion. Categorizing Individual Natures 1250-1600 Groebner, Valentin The Moral Authority of Nature, The University of Chicago Press (2003) Abstract In an anecdote…
Leprosy and Identity in Medieval Rouen
To us today, leprosy, like the plague, is undoubtedly symbolic of the Middle Ages – but this paper will conclude by considering the extent to which leprosy was viewed by contemporaries as the disease afflicting their society.
New perspectives on mortality in medieval England: a comparison of Winchester and New Colleges (c.1390-1540) with Benedictine monasteries at Canterbury, Westminster and Durham
New perspectives on mortality in medieval England: a comparison of Winchester and New Colleges (c.1390-1540) with Benedictine monasteries at Canterbury, Westminster and Durham…