Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages offers fresh insight into the intersection between these two distinct disciplines. A dozen authors address this intersec

Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.

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

This volume contributes to medical history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by significantly widening our understandings of health and treatment through the the

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