Medicine and Medical Ethics in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Medicine and Medical Ethics in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Author: Samuel S. Kottek

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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This volume presents expanded versions of papers read at a bi-national symposium convened in Jerusalem in December 1992. Organised within the framework of meetings held world-wide in remembrance of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, this conference focused on aspects of the profession and ethics of medicine. The major topics explored at the symposium were the relationships among physicians of different denominations and between them and the authorities; the image and status of the converso physician; questions of medical licensing and compensation; attitudes regarding suffering, pain and the care of infants; and the influence of medieval Jewish and Moslem religious law concepts underlying the care and treatment of patients. Other papers relate to the early modern period and to current problems of medical ethics, illustrating the impact of historical approaches on the development of the discipline of medical ethics today.

Charles V and the Castilian Assembly of the Clergy
Charles V and the Castilian Assembly of the Clergy

Author: Sean T. Perrone

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9004171169

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The Castilian Assembly of the Clergy has been overlooked in the scholarship on church-state relations and representative institutions in the early modern period. This oversight has distorted our understanding of political practice, royal finance, and church-state relations in sixteenth-century Castile. By examining the negotiations for subsidies between the crown and the Assembly, this book illuminates the dynamics between church and state and the limits of royal control over the church, and it challenges long-held conventions about the monolithic structure of the Spanish church and its subservience to the crown. The negotiations for subsidies also demonstrate the importance of consensus in the political process and how the Assembly sustained itself and its privileges for centuries through collaboration with the crown.

The Formation of al-Andalus, Part 1
The Formation of al-Andalus, Part 1

Author: Manuela Marin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 1351889605

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These two volumes present a conspectus of current research on the history and culture of early medieval Spain and Portugal, from the time of the Arab conquest in 711 up to the fall of the caliphate. They trace the impact of Islamisation on the pre-existing Roman and Visigothic political and social structures, the continuing interaction between Christian and Muslim, and describe the particular development and characteristics of Muslim Spain- al-Andalus. Together, they comprise 38 articles, of which 32 have been translated into English specially for this publication. The first volume focuses on political and social history, and looks in detail at settlement patterns and urbanisation; the second examines questions of language and covers the brilliant cultural and intellectual history of the period.

El feudalisme comptat i debatut
El feudalisme comptat i debatut

Author: Miquel Barceló

Publisher: Universitat de València

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 9788437056715

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Fa a penes trenta o quaranta anys el feudalisme català encara era percebut com una variant marginal i imperfecta d’un feudalisme clàssic que es circumscrivia a l’espai comprès entre el Loira i el Rin. El col·loqui de Girona de 1985, organitzat sota el doble impuls renovador de les obres de Pierre Bonnassie i Pierre Guichard, capgirà radicalment aquesta visió, en valorar els trets originals del feudalisme català, de la seua formació i expansió, i en introduir paral·lelament l’estudi d’aquelles societats d’al-Andalus que a partir del segle XII van ser objecte de conquesta per part dels feudals catalans. Disset anys després, aquest nou col·loqui celebrat a Barcelona aprofundeix en moltes d’aquestes orientacions i línies de recerca, com ara l’examen dels processos de conquesta i colonització dins un procés més general d’expansió del feudalisme i el necessari recurs a l’arqueologia, imprescindible per a mesurar les grandàries, densitats i sentit dels establiments pagesos, tant feudals com andalusins. També s’hi examinen amb nova llum les relacions entre senyors i pagesos, atenent i integrant tant l’estructura de classes com les transformacions produïdes per les variables econòmiques, els canvis en les magnituds i la composició del producte agrari, el procés de diferenciació interna de la pagesia i l’emergència de nous grups socials.