Between Text and Patient:

The Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe

Forthcoming in Micrologus' Library

(Firenze, Edizione de Galluzzo)

Florence Eliza Glaze and Brian K. Nance, Editors 

 

 

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Florence Eliza Glaze and Brian K. Nance

Part One 
Communities of Knowledge: Monastic, Urban, Mendicant & Itinerant

Arabic Medicine and Other Arabic Influences in Southern Italy in the Time of Constantinus Africanus

Francis Newton

 

Prolegomena: Scholastic Openings to Gariopontus of Salerno’s Passionarius

Florence Eliza Glaze

 

Skin and the City: Cosmetic Medicine as an Urban Concern

Luke Demaitre

 

Medicine and the Body at the Table in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Book 1 of Philip of Ferrara’s Liber de introductione loquendi

Joseph Ziegler

 

Mediating Collective Experience: the Tabula Medicine (1416-25) as a Handbook for Medical Practice

Peter Murray Jones

 

Fifteenth-Century English Banns Advertising the Services of an Itinerant Doctor

Linda Voigts

 

In Search of the Divine Physician: Learned Medicine and Psychology in the Works of Three Fifteenth-Century Spanish Nuns

Joan Cadden

Part Two
Patients, Practices, and Diseases

 

Antidotum cui nomen est acharistum

Klaus-Dietrich Fischer

 

Bloodletting as Recreation in the Medieval Monasteries of Europe

Mary Yearl

 

The Spread of Disease with the Crusades

Piers Mitchell

 

From Patient to Text? Narratives of Pain and Madness in Medical Scholasticism

Fernando Salmón

 

The Changing Identity of the French Pox in Early Renaissance Castile

Jon Arrizabalaga

 

How to Save the Lord Treasurer’s Life? Grappling With the Practice of a Chemical Court Physician

Brian Nance

 

Theory, Experience, and Customary Practice in the Medical Writings of Francisco Sanches

Nancy Siraisi

 

Part Three
The Transmission of Knowledge: Language, Text, and Image

 

The Transmission of Knowledge in Early Medieval Medical Texts: An Exploration

Anne Van Arsdall

 

Moving from Philology to Social History: the Circulation and Uses of Albucasis’s Latin Surgery in the Middle Ages

Monica Green

 

The Viridarium id est Expositio Antidotarii Nicolai Salernitani of Stephanus Arlandi

Pedro Gil Sotres

 

John of Capua and the Latin Translation of Maimonides' On Sexual Intercourse (De coitu)

Charles Burnett

 

Pseudonymity and the Critic: Authenticating the Medieval Galen

Vivian Nutton

 

Arnau's Reception in the Sixteenth Century: a Supplement to Giralt

Ian Maclean

 

Medieval Medical Manuscripts in the Harleian Collection

Laura Nuvoloni

 

Bibliography of Michael R. McVaugh's Major Publications

 

Tabula gratulatoria

 

Index of Manuscripts

 

Index of Subjects & Names

 

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The editors would like to thank the following for their generous support:
The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The Department of History, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Graduate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Duke University
The Trent Associates, Duke University Medical Center Library
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke University
The Department of History, Duke University
The Edwards College of Humanities & Fine Arts, Coastal Carolina University
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani