Medicine and religion, c. 1300
Subtitle: the case of Arnau de Vilanova
By: Joseph Ziegler.
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Arnaldus, -- de Villanova, -- d. 1311.; Arnaldus, -- de Villanova, -- d. 1311.; History of Medicine, Medieval -- Europe.; Religion and Medicine.; Faculty, Medical -- biography.; Education, Medical -- history -- Europe.; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Medicine, Medieval.
Genres: biography.
Description: In this study of the cultural role of medicine among learned people around 1300, the author argues that fusion rather than disjunction characterised the relationship between medicine and religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-334) and index.