A History of Balance, 1250-1375
A History of Balance, 1250-1375

Author: Joel Kaye

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 1107028450

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This book is a groundbreaking history of balance, exploring how a new model of equilibrium emerged during the medieval period.

Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250-1600
Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250-1600

Author: Siraisi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9004474838

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This volume collects essays published in the last 20 years. They deal with medicine in the university world of thirteenth to sixteenth century Italy, discussing both the internal academic milieu of teaching and learning and its relation to the lively urban social, economic, and cultural context in which medieval and Renaissance Italian university medicine grew up. Topics covered include the complex interaction of continuity and change in the transition from scholastic to humanistic medicine; humanist presentations of medical lives; the activities of physicians who moved among the worlds of academic learning, princely courts, and city life; the teaching of practical medicine; the relations of medical and surgical learning and practice; and the influence on medical writing of a variety of elements in the broader surrounding intellectual culture.

Compound Remedies
Compound Remedies

Author: Paula S. DeVos

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2020-12-22

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0822987945

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Compound Remedies examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with known healing powers that formed part of the basis for modern-day healing traditions and home remedies in Mexico. Paula S. De Vos traces the evolution of the Galenic pharmaceutical tradition from its foundations in ancient Greece to the physician-philosophers of medieval Islamic empires and the Latin West and eventually through the Spanish Empire to Mexico, offering a global history of the transmission of these materials, knowledges, and techniques. Her detailed inventory of the Herrera pharmacy reveals the many layers of this tradition and how it developed over centuries, providing new perspectives and insight into the development of Western science and medicine: its varied origins, its engagement with and inclusion of multiple knowledge traditions, the ways in which these traditions moved and circulated in relation to imperialism, and its long-term continuities and dramatic transformations. De Vos ultimately reveals the great significance of pharmacy, and of artisanal pursuits more generally, as a cornerstone of ancient, medieval, and early modern epistemologies and philosophies of nature.

Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge
Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge

Author: Geneviève Dumas

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-11-27

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 9004282440

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This book examines the social, institutional and cultural setting of medical practices in the medieval town of Montpellier which boasted one of the first universities of the middle ages and a famous school of medicine. Some of its most celebrated masters and their medical works have been thoroughly studied but few of them try to put these in context with a thriving urban community of merchants and craftsmen that were at the core of the city council. Their concurrent efforts will endow Montpellier of a rich health care system featuring not only the university masters but also the city’s barber-surgeons and apothecaries. Their collective fate is revealed here in an integrated picture of health and society in the middle ages.

Roger Bacon and the Sciences
Roger Bacon and the Sciences

Author: Hackett

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 9004444815

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This volume deals with the philosophy and thought of Roger Bacon. It is an effort to bring Roger Bacon studies up to date. Attention is given to a wide range of topics: Bacon's life and works, Bacon's contribution to the trivium (language studies) and the quadrivium (scientific-mathematical studies), his notion of a science, his moral philosophy, Bacon's contribution to medicine, alchemy, astrology, Bacon's positions in physics and metaphysics, an up dated bibliography of Bacon studies and a review of the state of Bacon Manuscripts. The volume situates Roger Bacon in the context of 13th century philosophy and thought, as well as demonstrating his importance for later thinkers. It is expected that it will be a major new contribution to Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Science in the Middle Ages
Science in the Middle Ages

Author: David C. Lindberg

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 0226482332

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In this book, sixteen leading scholars address themselves to providing as full an account of medieval science as current knowledge permits. Designed to be introductory, the authors have directed their chapters to a beginning audience of diverse readers.