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Author : Piers D. Mitchell
Release : 2004-11-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 550/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Medicine in the Crusades by : Piers D. Mitchell
Download or read book Medicine in the Crusades written by Piers D. Mitchell. This book was released on 2004-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a detailed description of medieval medical treatments available during the Crusades.
Author : Conor Kostick
Release : 2010-10-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 481/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Crusades and the Near East by : Conor Kostick
Download or read book The Crusades and the Near East written by Conor Kostick. This book was released on 2010-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high. This edited volume reveals a more complex story, exploring how the Holy Wars led on the one hand to a reinforcement of the beliefs and identities of each side, but on the other to a growing level of cultural exchange and interaction.
Author : Faye Getz
Release : 1998-11-02
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 67X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Medicine in the English Middle Ages by : Faye Getz
Download or read book Medicine in the English Middle Ages written by Faye Getz. This book was released on 1998-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 time when medical practice extended far beyond modern definitions. The institutions of court, church, university, and hospital--which would eventually work to separate medical practice from other duties--had barely begun to exert an influence in medieval England, writes Faye Getz. Sufferers could seek healing from men and women of all social ranks, and the healing could encompass spiritual, legal, and philosophical as well as bodily concerns. Here the author presents an account of practitioners (English Christians, Jews, and foreigners), of medical works written by the English, of the emerging legal and institutional world of medicine, and of the medical ideals present among the educated and social elite. How medical learning gained for itself an audience is the central argument of this book, but the journey, as Getz shows, was an intricate one. Along the way, the reader encounters the magistrates of London, who confiscate a bag said by its owner to contain a human head capable of learning to speak, and learned clerical practitioners who advise people on how best to remain healthy or die a good death. Islamic medical ideas as well as the poetry of Chaucer come under scrutiny. Among the remnants of this far distant medical past, anyone may find something to amuse and something to admire.
Author : Zsolt Hunyadi
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 428/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Crusades and the Military Orders by : Zsolt Hunyadi
Download or read book The Crusades and the Military Orders written by Zsolt Hunyadi. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a conference on a theme, the 34 essays by specialists from 15 countries prevent various facets of the struggles waged for the possession of the Holy Land between the 10th and 13th centuries, and of the activities of the military orders elsewhere in Europe.
Author : Henry Duke of Lancaster
Release : 2014
Genre : Anglo-Norman literature
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Book Rating : 676/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Book of Holy Medicines by : Henry Duke of Lancaster
Download or read book The Book of Holy Medicines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry of Grosmont, first Duke of Lancaster, cousin and friend of Edward III, was a soldier, statesman, and diplomat. His Book of Holy Medicines of 1354, an astonishing composition by a secular nobleman, is a classic of penitential thinking and intense spirituality that has never been available in a full translation. Catherine Batt's sensitive and profoundly informed translation into modern English brings to life the work's allegorical account of the wounds of sin and its meditative processes of healing. Her annotations and substantial introduction place the text within the political, literary, and discursive networks of later fourteenth-century England and its multilingual culture, and they open up important new literary connections in England and on the continent, where Lancaster spent much of his career. His Book is now accessible to modern English-speaking readers as a classic of medieval spirituality and lay writing alongside the works of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich.
