Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (The History of Medicine in Context)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: October 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780754636977
Subjects: History of medicine; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Nursing; Medical / Nursing; History: World; To 1500; History; World - General; Europe; Medicine; Medicine, Medieval
First sentence: In writing these words, Jacopone da Todi, the Franciscan friar and poet (d. 1306), gave an admirable summary of the vocation of a friar, studying, praying, suffering illness in patience and serving the poor.