Journal of Cultural Propert International Journal of Epidemiology Int. Jnl. of Law, Policy and the Family International Journal of Lexicography Int. Content alerting Jnls. Medical Practice at the End of the First Millennium Guest editors Peregrine Horden and Emilie Savage-Smith Historians of medicine join in the celebrations of the new millennium by looking back a thousand years. The eight essays in this collection provide a thematically and geographically coherent exploration of the medical world of the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries a period of our medical past which has received relatively little scholarly or popular attention.
Contributors emphasize practice rather than theory.
Yet by examining the full range of evidence that the period has left us, they reveal not only the scale and vigour of the practice but also the often surprising extent to which practice and theory could part company.