Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts

Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts
Author: Peter Murray Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Drawing on the wealth of medical illustration to be found in medieval manuscripts, the author traces the history of medieval medicine, the artistic traditions which shaped its depiction, and beliefs of both medical and artistic practitioners.

Medieval Herbal Remedies

Medieval Herbal Remedies
Author: Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136613889

This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.

Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550

Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550
Author: Jean A. Givens
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351875566

Images in medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, pharmacy, and natural history often confound our expectations about the functions of medical and scientific illustrations. They do not look very much like the things they purport to portray; and their actual usefulness in everyday medical practice or teaching is not obvious. By looking at works as diverse as herbals, jewellery, surgery manuals, lay health guides, cinquecento paintings, manuscripts of Pliny's Natural History, and Leonardo's notebooks, Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550 addresses fundamental questions about the interplay of art and science from the thirteenth to the mid-sixteenth century: What counts as a medical illustration in the Middle Ages? What are the purposes and audiences of the illustrations in medieval medical, pharmaceutical, and natural history texts? How are images used to clarify, expand, authenticate, and replace these texts? How do images of natural objects, observed phenomena, and theoretical concepts amplify texts and convey complex cultural attitudes? What features lead us to regard some of these images as typically 'medieval' while other exactly contemporary images strike us as 'Renaissance' or 'early modern' in character? Art historians, medical historians, historians of science, and specialists in manuscripts and early printed books will welcome this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary examination of the role of visualization in early scientific inquiry.

Visualizing Household Health

Visualizing Household Health
Author: Jennifer Borland
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2021-10-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271091487

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and translations in at least four other languages. In Visualizing Household Health, art historian Jennifer Borland uses the Régime to show how gender and health care converged within the medieval household. Visualizing Household Health explores the nature of the households portrayed in the Régime and how their members interacted with professionalized medicine. Borland focuses on several illustrated versions of the manuscript that contain historiated initials depicting simple scenes related to health care, such as patients’ consultations with physicians, procedures like bloodletting, and foods and beverages recommended for good health. Borland argues that these images provide important details about the nature of women’s agency in the home—and offer highly compelling evidence that women enacted multiple types of health care. Additionally, she contends, the Régime opens a window onto the history of medieval women as owners, patrons, and readers of books. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book broadens notions of the medieval medical community and the role of women in medieval health care. It will be welcomed by scholars and students of women’s history, art history, book history, and the history of medicine.

Medicine in the Middle Ages

Medicine in the Middle Ages
Author: Ian Dawson
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781592700370

Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.

The Medieval Health Handbook

The Medieval Health Handbook
Author: Luisa Cogliati Arano
Publisher: George Braziller
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1992
Genre: Drugs
ISBN:

A lavishly decorated handbook of medicine was conceived for the lay public on topics such as human health, healing, medicine, and household management.

Medieval Medical Miniatures

Medieval Medical Miniatures
Author: Peter Murray Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1985
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

When Kaya and her family join with other Nez Percé and Salish Indians to fish for the red salmon, she and her older sister hope to be reunited with their younger sister, who had been kidnapped some time before. Includes historical notes on the summer activities of the Nez Percé Indians.