... curative care and literacy in late medieval Britain simultaneously increased experiences of medicine’s obscurity and of textual incomprehension. Medieval men and women confronted a set of therapeutic models and explanatory terms that often failed — failed, that is, to be understandable to readers...

...Clarissa Chenovick Henry of Lancaster's Livre de Seyntz Medicines is a vividly medicalized penitential narrative composed by a leading lay nobleman of fourteenth-century England. Grounded in the physiology of the medieval heart, Lancaster's understudied Livre demonstrates how medieval medical...

... Shatzmiller, ed., Médecine et justice en Provence médiévale: Documents de Manosque, 1262 –  1348 (Aix-en-Provence: Uni- versité de Provence, 1989). 2 See Piers Mitchell, Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds, and the Medieval Sur- geon (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004). 3...

...Matthew Milner Recent work in historical philosophy on the Aristotelian concept of qualities — that is, hot, cold, wet, and dry, the fundamental causal agents of the natural world — offers a moment to reconsider the connections between medicine, religion, and natural philosophy in late medieval...

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...Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman This volume explores new ways of understanding medieval and early modern conceptualizations of nature in light of current developments in critical animal studies, ecocriticism, new materialism, as well as our expanding knowledge of premodern...

..., medicine “writes large the broader questions about how medieval culture views and deploys as ‘per- Turner / Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages  63 meable’ and ‘shared’ what a modern sensibility might think of as discrete and separate categories of knowledge.”20...

... observation of the effects of various medicines.”10 Cam- 222  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 45.2 / 2015 eron’s claims have been challenged by Barbara Brennessel, Michael D. C. Drout, and Robyn Gravel, whose tests more recently showed that remedies from Bald’s Leechbook...

... Technology, Science, and Art, vol. 3. xiv, 258 pp.; 19 illus. $99.95. Citrome, Jeremy J. The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xi, 202 pp. $65.00. Cook, Harold J. Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden...

... hospitals or individual services were designed for the latter.] Medieval medicine was especially dependent on the interpretation of exter- nally detectable signs. Ambiguous symptoms impeded specific diagnosis, leading patients to seek comfort in hospitals that were relatively open, both...

..., 90). 15 Gundolf Keil, ed., “Ein teutsch puech machen”: Untersuchungen zur landessprachlichen Vermittlung medizinischen Wissens (Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert, 1993), 172 – 401; Peter Murray Jones, “Image, Word, and Medicine in the Middle Ages,” In Visualiz­ ing Medieval Medicine...

... — a generation or two ago, it would be unsurprising to premodern textual practitioners and consumers, who were accustomed to the domain of medicine overlapping with other textual Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46:1, January 2016 DOI 10.1215/10829636-3343087  © 2016...

... by Florence Eliza Glaze and Brian K. Nance, “examine the potential of the Duke collections for the scholar inter- ested in select topics of ancient, medieval, and early modern European medi- cine considered in historical context.” Part 3, prepared by Suzanne Porter, curator of the History of Medicine...

...” — and “this Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 48:1, January 2018 DOI 10.1215/10829636-4280882  © 2018 by Duke University Press is done with experimental remedies and not with [a knowledge of] the inner or outer anatomy.”4 Although Fioravanti’s interest in alchemical medicine is well known...

... should have evolved between dis- courses of medicine and those of the politic body. Indeed, crisis was initially Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46:1, January 2016 DOI 10.1215/10829636-3343147  © 2016 by Duke University Press a medical term (a “turning point...

..., the terminology of shame and hiddenness is completely absent. Even new redactions of earlier gynecological texts in the eleventh century did not introduce this vocabulary.14 While early medieval scribes did seem interested in grouping texts on women’s medicine together,15...

... and representational process. While it may be easy to consider 1543 as a point in time demarcating purely medieval from burgeoning modern medical meth- ods, Vesalius’s text instantiates a purified form of Galenic medicine that pri- oritizes experimentation and fluidity. Really, to speak of a compounded...

...: Boydell Press, 2015. xv, 250 pp.; 4 maps, 1 fig., 2 tables. $99.00. 4. Medicine and science Cadden, John. Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 368 pp.; 8 illus. $85.00. Clayton...

... and Methods in the History of Medicine, ed. Roy Porter and Andrew Wear (London: Croom Helm, 1987): 230 – 55, 231; Lucinda McCray Beier, Suffer- 488  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 38.3 / 2008 ers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in Seventeenth-Century England (London...

...Shigehisa Kuriyama Many patients in Europe and America today think it perfectly plausible that a cure for their insomnia or headaches, say, might be found in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine of Han dynasty China, that approaches to the body conceived in a distant culture, more than two...