TY - BOOK
T1 - Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
A2 - Biller , Peter
A2 - Ziegler, Joseph
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781903153079/religion-and-medicine-in-the-middle-ages/
M3 - Book
SN - 9781903153079
T3 - York Studies in Medieval Theology
BT - Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
PB - Boydell and Brewer Ltd
ER -