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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 ...
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