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Informationen zum Autor Faith Wallis is Associate Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed in the Department of History and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. She is the co-editor of Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2005) and the author of essays and translations on medieval science and medicine. Klappentext In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. Zusammenfassung In this collection of over 100 primary sources! many translated for the first time! Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Medicina: Healers and Healing in Early Medieval Europe (500-1100) Chapter One: The Fragmented Heritage of Ancient Medicine I. The Alexandrian Curriculum in Latin Dress 1. Isidore of Seville: The Canon of Medicine 2. The Old Latin Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates 3. Teaching the Alexandrian Curriculum in Sixth-Century Italy: Agnellus of Ravenna's Commentary on Galen's On Sects 4. An Early Medieval Summary of Medical Theory: The Wisdom of the Art of Medicine II. Medical Practices in a Changing World 5. An Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine from the Age of Justinian: Alexander of Tralles 6. Galen Enlarged for Practice: Pseudo-Galen, Liber tertius on Pneumonia and Pleurisy 7. Echoes of Methodism: "Aurelius" on Rabies 8. Medical Self-Help for the Gentleman Traveler: The Medicine and Natural Remedies of "Pliny" 9. A Late Antique Estate-Holder's Manual of Home Remedies 10. The Doctor as Connoisseur of Pulses and Urines 11. Prognosis and Prophecy Chapter Two: Christianity, Disease, and Medicine I. Saints as Healers 12. A Sixth-Century Byzantine Saint Dispenses Medical Advice: Theodore of Sykeon 13. The Medical World of Gregory of Tours: Plagues, Doctors, and Saints 14. A Reluctant Bishop-Healer: John of Beverley 15. A Carolingian Therapeutic Passion of Saints Cosmas and Damian II. Rituals of Healing 16. St Sigismund, Patron of Sufferers from Fever 17. "Prayers to the Earth and All Herbs" Chapter Three: Medicine in Early Medieval Courts and Cloisters I. The Doctor at Court 18. The Court Physician in Ostrogothic Italy 19. Dietary Advice for a Merovingian King 20. Alcuin on the Doctors at Charlemagne's Court II. Monastic Medicine in the Early Medieval West 21. The Care of the Sick at the Monastery of Vivarium 22. Medical Injunctions in the Rule of St Benedict 23. A Monastic Defense of Medicine against Rigorist Critics: The Lorsch Leechbook 24. The Plan of St Gall: Medical Facilities within an Ideal Monastery 25. Medicine, Morality, and Meditation in a Monastic Herb-Garden: Walahfrid Strabo's The Little Garden III. The Medical Networks of Missionaries and Bishops 26. The Medical Networks of Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Missionaries 27. Bishop Pardulus of Laon Dispenses Medical Advice 28. Elias of Jerusalem Sends a Prescription to King Alfred of Wessex 29. Letters of Medical Advice from Bishop Fulbert of Chartres and His Circle Chapter Four: A Regional Case Study: Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England 30. Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III Part II. Physica: The Advent and Impact of Academic Medicine (1100-1500) Chapter Five: Salerno: Medicine's "Theoretical Turn" and the Rationalization of Practice 31. Tenth-Century Medicine: The Testimony of Richer of Rheims 32. Constantine the African: The Romance of Translating Arabic Med...
