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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. Professor Peter Biller is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York; Dr Joseph Ziegler teaches in the Department of History at the University of Haifa. The contributors include: Joseph Ziegler, Peregrine Horden, Kathryn Taglia, Jessalyn Bird, Peter Biller, Danielle Jacquart, Michael Mcvaugh, Maaike Van Der Lugt, William Courtenay, and Vivian Nutton.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
• Author: Peter Biller
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 271
• EAN: 9781903153079
• ISBN: 1903153077
• ID: 05022484
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Weight: 574 g
• Dimensions: 166 × 242 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 2001

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