Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781903153079)

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.

Author: Peter Biller
ISBN-10: 1903153077
ISBN-13: 9781903153079
Publisher: York Medieval Press
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2001
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.41w x 0.88d