The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century By Richard H. Steckel Published Online (2010)…
Poison, Medicine, and the Medieval Apothecary
Poison, Medicine, and the Medieval Apothecary Session: Poison and Medicine in the Fourteenth Century By Marie A. Kelleher, California State Univ.–Long Beach This…
Poison and Medicine in the Western World before the Appearance of the Treatises about Poisons (End of the Thirteenth Century)
Poison and Medicine in the Western World before the Appearance of the Treatises about Poisons (End of the Thirteenth Century) Session:Defining Poison ca.…
Talon cusp in a deciduous upper incisor from a medieval Portuguese child
Talon cusp in a deciduous upper incisor from a medieval Portuguese child By ANA MARIA SILVA and ANA CRISTINA SUBTIL Anthropological Science, Vol.…
Defining Poison ca. 1300–1600
This paper discussed the definition of poison and its growing medical interest throughout the 14th to 16th centuries.
Early childhood stress and adult age mortality – A study of dental enamel hypoplasia in the medieval Danish village of Tirup
Early childhood stress and adult age mortality – A study of dental enamel hypoplasia in the medieval Danish village of Tirup By Jesper…
A Case of Indifference? Child Murder in Later Medieval England
Infanticide was a felony in the Middle Ages and neither jurors nor royal officials treated child murder with indifference. Nevertheless, it is clear that both gender and marital status guided the courts in their decisions throughout the legal process in terms of indicting, prosecuting, and sentencing defendants in cases of child murder.
Bloodletting in Monastic Customaries
Matthews’ paper dealt with the practice of bloodletting, which she sees as one of the maligned and misunderstood aspects of medieval medicine.
Phenomenology of the past: Pain and illness in the 12th Century
A study of pain in the twelfth century reveals pain to have been embedded in culture. Pain had sense as a natural, social, and spiritual experience.
The Case History in Medieval Islamic Medical Literature: Tajārib and Mujarrabāt as Source
The Case History in Medieval Islamic Medical Literature: Tajārib and Mujarrabāt as Source By Cristina Álvarez Millán Medical History, Vol.54:2 (2010) Introduction: Knowledge of…
THE CHANGING POSITION OF THE SERVING BROTHERS AND THEIR CARITATIVE FUNCTIONS IN THE ORDER OF ST JOHN IN JERUSALEM AND ACRE, ca 1070-1291
THE CHANGING POSITION OF THE SERVING BROTHERS AND THEIR CARITATIVE FUNCTIONS IN THE ORDER OF ST JOHN IN JERUSALEM AND ACRE, ca 1070-1291…
Communities and Crisis: Bologna during the Black Death
Communities and Crisis: Bologna during the Black Death By Shona Kelly Wray Brill Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978 90 04 17634 8 Bologna is well known…
Selectivity of Black Death mortality with respect to preexisting health
Selectivity of Black Death mortality with respect to preexisting health By Sharon N. DeWitte and James W. Wood Proceedings of the National Academy…
Anorexia and the Holiness of Saint Catherine of Siena
Anorexia and other manifestations of the body provided the medieval woman a unique opportunity to affirm the true power of mystico-religious rules.
Advice Concerning Pregnancy and Health in Late Medieval Europe: Peasant Women’s Wisdom in The Distaff Gospels
Of the more than 200 pieces of advice contained in The Distaff Gospels, a mid-15th-century Old French collection of women’s lore recently available for the first time in modern English, almost half concern aspects of health: pregnancy, predicting the sex of the foetus and ensuring the future wellbeing of the child, as well as practices to avoid sickness and cures for various ailments.
The Black Death: A Personal History
John Hatcher shares the challenges of writing and researching his book The Black Death: A Personal History.
Lady Philosophy’s Therapeutic Method
Lady Philosophy’s Therapeutic Method Phillips, Philip Edward Medieval English Studies, vol. 10 (2002) No. 2 Abstract Lady Philosophy and the Application of Ancient…
The Social Position of the Surgeon in London, 1350-1450
The Social Position of the Surgeon in London, 1350-1450 Grigsby, Bryon Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 13 (1996) Abstract Many critics’ familiarity with…
Attempree diete was al hir phisik: The Medieval Application of Medical Theory to Feasting
Attempree diete was al hir phisik: The Medieval Application of Medical Theory to Feasting Burkholder, Kristen M. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 13…
Arnald of Vilanova: Physician and Prophet
Arnald of Vilanova: Physician and Prophet Daly, Juanita A. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 4 (1987) Abstract In the wake of the pioneering…
Courtly Patronage of Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic
Courtly Patronage of Ancient Sciences in Post-Classical Islamic By Sonja Brentjes Al-Qanṭara, Vol.29:2 (2008) Abstract: In this paper I study evidence for courtly patronage for…
Cataracts and hernias: aspects of surgical practice in the fourteenth century
Cataracts and hernias: aspects of surgical practice in the fourteenth century By Michael McVaugh Medical History, Vol.45:3 (2001) Introduction: Let me begin by paraphrasing…
Cooking up Fine Remedies: On the Culinary Aesthetic in a Sixteenth-Century Chinese Materia Medica
Cooking up Fine Remedies: On the Culinary Aesthetic in a Sixteenth-Century Chinese Materia Medica By Vivienne Lo and Penelope Barrett Medical History, Vol.…
Holy Medicine and Diseases of the Soul: Henry of Lancaster and Le Livre de Seyntz Medicines
Henry of Grosmont (c.1310-61) was one of the most outstanding English aristocrats of the mid-fourteenth century.
An Analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Understanding of Medicine and its Influence on His Work
An Analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Understanding of Medicine and its Influence on His Work By Krish Vigneswaran Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol. 3 (2007)…