Medieval and Renaissance Medicine. Benjamin Lee Gordon. London: Peter Owen, 1960; PP. xii+843. Illustrated. 63s.

Medieval aspects of Renaissance learning

[Health and dietetics in medieval preventive medicine: the health regimen of Peter of Spain (thirteenth century)].

This text is an analysis of a preventive medical work, Liber de conservanda sanitate, composed in the thirteenth century by the Portuguese physician and doctor, Peter of Spain (?1210-1277). His work enables us to look at the conceptions of health and hygiene and understand the social role of university physicians in medieval preventive medicine. The work constantly displays the notion of the ba...

Do Medieval and Renaissance Androids Presage the Posthuman?

In his article "Do Medieval and Renaissance Androids Presage the Posthuman?" Kevin LaGrandeur analyzes the relationships between literary images of artificial humans associated with medieval alchemists and alchemy, their modified reemergence in the Renaissance, and how such androids may forecast the idea of a posthuman subjectivity that is connected with their present-day descendents. For examp...

The hospitals of later medieval London.

IN her study of the medieval hospitals of England, composed at the beginning of this century, Rotha M. Clay drew attention to the involvement of municipal and civic authorities throughout the country in the endowment and management of hospitals run for the benefit of the local community. "It was", she wrote, "undoubtedly the townsfolk who were the principal founders of the fourteenth and fiftee...

Jews, medicine, and medieval society

reasons for the rise and decline of the spas in the first place. Neither does he adequately explore why Carratraca became one of the most important spas of the country, or why another one-Tolox-followed a very different developmental pattern, in that it began to take off at the beginning of the present century when the others were in definite decline. Moreover, although the book makes it clear ...