Название: Medicine in the English Middle Ages
Автор: Faye Getz
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 1998
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 189
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English
This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of English medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice extended far beyond modern definitions. The institutions of court, church, university, and hospital--which would eventually work to separate medical practice from other duties--had barely begun to exert an influence in medieval England, writes Faye Getz. Sufferers could seek healing from men and women of all social ranks, and the healing could encompass spiritual, legal, and philosophical as well as bodily concerns