Parution – Between Text and Patient : the Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe

Parution – Between Text and Patient : the Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe

Florence Eliza Glaze and Brian K. Nance (eds.), Between Text and Patient : the Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe, collana Micrologus’ Library, n°39, anno 2011.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

xi     Tabula gratulatoria
3      Florence Eliza Glaze and Brian K. Nance, Introduction

Part One: COMMUNITIES OF KNOWLEDGE

25     Francis Newton, « Arabic Medicine and Other Arabic Cultural Influences in Southern Italy in the Time of Constantinus Africanus (saec. XI 2) »
57     Florence Eliza Glaze, « Prolegomena: Scholastic Openings to Gariopontus of Salerno’s Passionarius »
87     Pedro Gil-Sotres, « The Viridarium id est Expositio Antidotarii Nicolai Salernitani by Stephanus Arlandi »
97     Luke Demaitre, « Skin and the City: Cosmetic Medicine as an Urban Concern »
121    Joseph Ziegler, « Medicine and the Body at the Table in Fourteenth- Century Italy: Book one of Philip of Ferrara’s Liber de introductione loquendi »
137    Joan Cadden, « In Search of the Divine Physician: Learned Medicine and Psychology in the Works of Three Fifteenth-Century Spanish Nuns »

Part Two: PATIENTS, PRACTITIONERS, AND DISEASES

173     Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, « Antidotum cui nomen est acharistum »
201     Anne Van Arsdall, « The Transmission of Knowledge in Early Medieval Medical Texts: An Exploration »
217     Mary K.K.Yearl, « Bloodletting as Recreation in the Monasteries of Medieval Europe »
245     Linda Ehrsam Voigts, « Fifteenth-Century English Banns Advertising the Services of an Itinerant Doctor »
279     Peter Murray Jones, « Mediating Collective Experience: the Tabula Medicine (1416-1425) as a Handbook for Medical Practice »
309     Piers D. Mitchell, « The Spread of Disease with the Crusades »
331     Monica Green, « Moving from Philology to Social History: the Circulation and Uses of Albucasis’s Latin Surgery in the Middle Ages »
373     Fernando Salmón, « From Patient to Text? Narratives of Pain and Madness in Medical Scholasticism »
397     Jon Arrizabalaga, « The Changing Identity of the French Pox in Early Renaissance Castile »
419     Brian K. Nance, « The Arena and the Study: Medical Practice in Turquet de Mayerne’s Treatment of Robert Cecil’s Final Illness »
441     Nancy G. Siraisi, « Theory, Experience, and Customary Practice in the Medical Writings of Francisco Sanches »

Part Three: TRANSMISSION, AUTHENTICATION, AND PRESERVATION

467     Charles Burnett, « The Latin Versions of Maimonides’ On Sexual Intercourse (De coitu) »
481     Vivian Nutton, « Pseudonymity and the Critic: Authenticating the Medieval Galen »
493     Ian Maclean, « The Reception of Medieval Practical Medicine in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova »
513     Laura Nuvoloni, « Medieval Medical Manuscripts in the British Library’s Harleian Collection »
533     Publications by Michael R. McVaugh, arranged by type and date
541     List of Plates
545     List of Contributors
553     Index of Subjects
567     Index of Manuscripts

Details of the book can be found and copies ordered via the webpage of SISMEL (the International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture) in the Edizioni del Galluzzo’s Micrologus’ Library series:  www.sismel.it (Search « Glaze » or « Nance ».) 

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