Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550
By: edited by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide.
Contributors: Givens, Jean A. 1947-; Reeds, Karen.; Touwaide, Alain.
Series: AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Medicine, Medieval.; Science, Medieval.; Medical illustration -- Early works to 1800.; Botanical illustration -- Early works to 1800.; History, Medieval.; Natural History -- history.; Medical Illustration -- history.; Manuscripts, Medical -- history.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Image, word and medicine in the Middle Ages / Peter Murray Jones; title: Latin crusaders, Byzantine herbals / Alain Touwaide; title: The illuminated Tacuinum Sanitatis Manuscripts from Northern Italy circa 1380-1400 / Cathleen Hoeniger; title: Erudition on Display / Sarah Blake McHam; title: Reading and writing the illustrated Tractatus de herbis, 1280-1526 / Jean A. Givens; title: Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical studies in Milan / Monica Azzolini; title: (Hu)moral Exemplars; title: Leonardo da Vinci and botanical illustration / Karen M. Reeds; title: The uses of realism in early-modern illustrated botany / Claudia Swan.