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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Arnau

Ziegler, Joseph, Medicine and Religion c. 1300: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998, x + 342 pp.

Resum
This book discusses the relationship between religion and medicine around 1300. Joseph Ziegler analyses the spiritual writings of two learned physicians in the light of their medical background and examines the use of medical knowledge for non-medical purposes, and by clerics who did not engage in medical practice.

Contents:
* 1. Introduction · 1
* 2. The Language of the Physicians who Produce Spiritual Texts · 46
* 3. Medicine as a Vehicle for Religious Speculation · 114
* 4. Medicine for the Preachers · 176
* 5. Medicine and Religion: Between Competition and Cooperation · 214
* 6. Conclusions · 268
* App. I. Medical Analogies in Giovanni da San Gimignano, Summa de exemplis et rerum similitudinibus locuplentissima (Antwerp, 1583) · 277
* App. II. Medical Analogies in Pierre Bersuire, Reductorium morale super totam Bibliam (Venice, 1583) · 294
* App. III. A Sermon for Students of Medicine [d'Humbert de Romans] · 314
Matèries
Medicina
Religió - Teologia cristiana
Vilanova, Arnau de
Notes
Tesi doctoral de l'autor (Oxford, 1994).
Recensions:
* Josep Perarnau, Arxiu de Textos Catalans Antics, 19 (2000), 696-700. URL: http:/​/​publicacions.iec.cat/​repository/​pdf/​00000005 ...
URL
http:/​/​books.google.com/​books?id=_nEmJDMjRwsC
What are the images?

The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).