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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Medieval medicine"”.
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Could the Content and Context of the Late Medieval Lelamour Herbal Provide a Source for New Treatments?
… Could the content and context of the late medieval Lelamour Herbal provide a source for new treatments? Medieval manuscripts can form an important resource for modern medicine, containing remedies with plant or ingredient combinations that have the potential to provide the basis for new …
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Inventing Idiocy: Law, Land And The Construction Of Intellectual Disability In Late Medieval England
… initially a medical concept, but an invention of medieval jurists and administrators concerned with practical matters of land and inheritance. For while a concept of idiocy existed in the Middle Ages, the idiocy that preoccupied medieval jurists had little to do with a specific idea of …
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Healing leaves
Medieval French literature provides the modern researcher with references to the healing arts in many passages that are incorporated into prose or poetic works. Because there was no clear separation of the genres into modern classifications, references to treatment of sicknesses of body, mind or …
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The King’s Sick Body: The Spiritual and Social Implications of Arnau of Vilanova’s Regimen Sanitatis
… in the context of thirteenth-century Iberian medicine, noting his many contributions to the development of university-based medicine. I go on to discuss Arnau’s spiritual concerns, and read the Regimen sanitatis in the light of Arnau’s apocalyptic preoccupations and the theory of The King’s …
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
… and separation from broader aspects of late medieval religion and medicine. Using a rich array of devotional and medical texts, including prayers, saints’ lives, charms and textual amulets, the thesis relocates and contextualises childbirth therapeutics within late medieval devotion and …
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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
… troubadour song interacts with other aspects medieval culture. The first aspect of medieval culture that has bearing on the musical nature of troubadour song is the knowledge organizational scheme known as the seven liberal arts. The definitions of music and poetry found in treatises on the …
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Emotions in Njáls saga and Egils saga: Approaches and literary analysis
… the literary representations of emotions in medieval literature, we must equip ourselves with a model of the knowledge systems of the culture that created it. To reach this goal, the study applies interdisciplinary methods of literary criticism, intellectual history, cognitive linguistics, …