Manuscript Sources of Medieval Medicine
Subtitle: A Book of Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780815308157
Subjects: History Of Medicine; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; History; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Medicine, Medieval; Sources
First sentence: The purpose of this chapter is to set out some remarks about the current state of research with regard to the history of medicine in Germany, and then, in the first main section, to say something about the methodology and the overall conception that underlie my plan to write a history of German vernacular medical literature in the Middle Ages.