Religion and Medicine in the Middle AgesPeter Biller, Joseph Ziegler 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. |
Contents
Vivian Nutton | 17 |
Religious Orthodoxy as a | 35 |
The Careers of Arnau de Vilanova | 47 |
Medical Doctors as Theologians | 69 |
Midwives in Northern French | 77 |
Kathryn Taglia | 90 |
Translation of Jacques de Vitry Historia | 109 |
Music in Medieval Hospitals | 135 |
Medicine and Heresy | 155 |
Medicine Theology and | 175 |
Medicine and Immortality in Terrestrial Paradise | 201 |
Joseph Ziegler | 242 |