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Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

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£80.00

Publisher: York Medieval Press
ISBN: 9781903153079
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 10/09/2001
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances. The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the driving force behind these studies. The book reflects the extraordinary advances which 'pure' history of medicine has made in the last twenty years: there is medicine at the levels of midwife and village practitioner, the sweep of the learned Greek and Latin tradition of over a millennium; there is control of midwifery by the priest, therapy through liturgy, medicine as an expression of religious life for heretics, medicine invading theologians' discussion of earthly paradise; and so on. Professor PETER BILLER is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York; Dr JOSEPH ZIEGLER teaches in the Department of History at the University of Haifa.Contributors JOSEPH ZIEGLER, PEREGRINE HORDEN, KATHRYNTAGLIA, JESSALYN BIRD, PETER BILLER, DANIELLE JACQUART, MICHAEL McVAUGH, MAAIKE VAN DER LUGT, WILLIAM COURTENAY, VIVIAN NUTTON.
Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages (with Joseph Ziegler) - Peter Biller Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages (with Peter Biller) - Joseph Ziegler God, Galen and the Depaganization of Ancient Medicine - Vivian Nutton Moses, Galen and Jacques Despars: Religious Orthodoxy as a Path to Unorthodox Religious Views - Danielle Jacquart Moments of Inflection: The Careers of Arnau de Vilanova - Michael R McVaugh Curers of Body and Soul: Medical Doctors as Theologians - William J Courtenay Delivering an Identity: Midwives in Northern French Synodal Legislation, c.1200-1500 - Kathryn Taglia Medicine for Body and Soul: Jacques de Vitry's Sermons to Hospitallers and their Patients - Jessalynn Bird Texts on Hospitals: Translation of Jacques de Vitry, Historia Occidentalis 29, and Edition of Jacques de Vitry's Sermons to Hospitallersto Hospitallers - Jessalynn Bird Religion as Medicine: Music in Medieval Hospitals - Medicine and Heresy - Peter Biller The Incubus in Scholastic Debate: Medicine, Theology and Popular Belief - Maaike van der Lugt Medicine and Immortality in Terrestrial Paradise - Joseph Ziegler

Professor Peter Biller, Joseph Ziegler, Danielle Jacquart

PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

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