Religion and medicine in the Middle Ages

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Religion and medicine in the Middle Ages

edited by Peter Biller and Joseph Ziegler

(York studies in medieval theology, 3)

York Medieval Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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  • NCID
    BA54295262
  • ISBN
    • 1903153077
  • LCCN
    2001035038
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Woodbridge, Suffolk
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 253 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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