Priscille Aladjidi, Le roi père des pauvres, France XIIIe-XVe siècles, préface de Colette Beaune

Le milieu médical en France du XIIe au XVe siècle

'Scientists and Charlatans' (pp. 257-331), Gillispie goes on to show doctors endeavouring to define more clearly the contours of their profession by attacking what they saw as medical quacks. Entertaining full-dress treatments of the medical careers of Mesmer and Marat illuminate the general theme. Gillispie's general thesis is not, it is true, novel in regard to medical science. However, the b...

Le cadre de vie des médecins Parisiens aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles

Pharmacie et médicament en Méditerranée occidentale (XIIIe–XVIe siècles)

is drawn precisely. This is the very model of scrupulous scholarship. Murray groups his suicide accounts according to the sources from which they are drawn. He systematically works his way through chronologies, judicial records and religious sources, subdividing each category as he goes. First, he examines chronicles of public figures and private individuals, town chronicles and chronicles of r...

La Folie au Moyen Age, XIe–XIIIe siècles

was a significant force in the creation of the school's identity. Brodel created a style which is remarkably bold realistically, yet which, as he recognized, simplified the field to permit the viewer to see only what was intended. The authors of this handsomely produced volume describe Brodel's life in great detail on the basis of a large number of family letters. It is in fact more of a person...

Sur le controle de l'innocuite et de l'efficacite des vaccins antipestiques