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)…
Exhuming Trotula, Sapiens Matrona of Salerno
Exhuming Trotula, Sapiens Matrona of Salerno Rowland, Beryl Florilegium, vol. 1 (1979) Introduction In the catalogues of the mediaeval libraries as Canterbury and…
The Purification of Women after Childbirth: A Window onto Medieval Perceptions of Women
In the second quarter of the thirteenth century Bishop Roger Niger found it necessary to issue a statute in the archdeaconry of London regarding the rite known as the Purification of Women after Childbirth, more commonly spoken of today as churching.
Abandonment of terminally ill patients in the Byzantine era. An ancient tradition?
End-of-life decisions remain a complicated problem in the relationships between physicians and the patient’s family, with social and legal consequences which today face all civilised societies.
Latin Charms of Medieval England: Verbal Healing in a Christian Oral Tradition
In what follows I shall address four elementary questions: (1) What are the near-allied genres? In other words, in what contexts do charms appear in the manuscripts? (2) In what sense can the genre be described as oral traditional? (3) What are the forms of language in which the genre coheres? (4) How, on what occasion, by whom, and for whom are charms performed, and how do they function within these situations?
“The first dispensation of Christ is medicinal” : Augustine and Roman medical culture
“The first dispensation of Christ is medicinal” : Augustine and Roman medical culture By Shelley Annette Reid PhD Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2008…
Monasticism and medicine: Gendered activities in healing practices, 500-1100
Monasticism and medicine: Gendered activities in healing practices, 500-1100 By Lori Ann Woods MA Thesis: University of Calgary, 1998 Introduction: In the late…
Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World By John Freely Alfred Knopf, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-307-26534-0 Aladdin’s Lamp is…
The Doctrine of Signatures in the Medieval and Ottoman Levant
The Doctrine of Signatures in the Medieval and Ottoman Levant By Efriam Lev Vesalius, Vol.8:1 ( 2002) Abstract: This study traces the use of…
Masculinity and medicine: Thomas Walsingham and the death of the Black Prince
Masculinity and medicine: Thomas Walsingham and the death of the Black Prince By David Green Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 35:1 (2009) Abstract:…
The evolution of hospitals from antiquity to the Renaissance
The evolution of hospitals from antiquity to the Renaissance By François P. Retief and Louise Cilliers Acta Theologica Supplementum, Vol. 7 (2005) Abstract:…
The Development of the Sciences in China from the 4th to the End of the 12th Century
For the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the article covers mathematics, astronomy, medical sciences, pharmacology and agricultural techniques.
A Mediaeval Compendium of Arabic Medicine: Abu Sahl al-Masihi’s Book of the Hundred
A Mediaeval Compendium of Arabic Medicine: Abu Sahl al-Masihi’s Book of the Hundred By Ghada Karmi Journal for the History of Arabic Science,…
Ibn Zuhr’s Contributions to Surgery
Ibn Zuhr’s Contributions to Surgery By Farid Sami Haddad Journal for the History of Arabic Science, Vol.10 (1994) Introduction: Ibn Zuhr comes from a famous…
The Emergence of the Prototype of the Modern Hospital in Medieval Islam
The Emergence of the Prototype of the Modern Hospital in Medieval Islam By Aydin Sayili Belleten, Vol. 44: 174 (1980) Click here…
Medical Education in the Middle Ages
Examines how medicine was taught throughout the Middle Ages, from the end of the Roman Empire to the 15th century, including the role of universities.
Medico-legal Practices in the Fifteenth Century Dubrovnik
Medico-legal Practices in the Fifteenth Century Dubrovnik By Tatjana Buklijaš and Stella Fatovic-Ferencic Croatian Medical Journal, Vol.45:2 (2004) Abstract: We analyzed the beginnings of medico-legal…
The Croatian Glagolitic Rule of St. Benedict
The Croatian Glagolitic Rule of St. Benedict By Marija-Ana Dürrigl Croatian Medical Journal, Vol 44:1 (2003) Introduction: Croatian medieval culture held a specific position between…
Temporal Trends in Demographic Profiles and Stress Levels in Medieval (6th–13th)
Temporal Trends in Demographic Profiles and Stress Levels in Medieval (6th–13th Century) Population Samples from Continental Croatia By Mario Šlaus, Dana Kollmann, Shannon A. Novak…
Medicine and Society in the Medieval Hospital
Medicine and Society in the Medieval Hospital By Tatjana Buklijaš Croatian Medical Journal, Vol. 49:2 (2008) Introduction: Hospitals today are places where medical treatment is…
Views on Sexuality in Croatian Medieval Sources
To explore sexuality in the Middle Ages is always a challenge, leading the investigator through a complex area of controversies. This is partly because medieval writers were not explicit and often used cryptic language, mostly to avoid committing sin by talking about issues, which, as they thought, were essentially corrupted
The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc
A great many of the tragedies of the past must have been caused by mental disease which was undetected and misunderstood. Such a case may well have been that of Joan of Arc.
Nicolaus Copernicus, Astronomer and Physician
Examines the life and career of Nicolaus Copernicus, emphasizing his role as a doctor.