Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

Name: Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Brand: York Medieval Press
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By Joseph Ziegler

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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.

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 272
Release Date:: 2001-10-01
Publication Date:: 2001-08-01
Publisher:: York Medieval Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1903153077
ISBN13:: 9781903153079
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 575 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 19 cm

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