Trazos de estética medieval / Strokes of Medieval Aesthetics

The aesthetics of texts: medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Books, as we know them today, emerged from earlier records made successively on tablets, papyrus, and scrolls. Around the 4th century, the first form of a book appeared: a codex written on parchment (sheepskin). A more sophisticated form, the illuminated manuscript (text supplemented with decoration) created on vellum (calfskin) succeeded the codex after the fall of the Roman Empire. It remaine...

A Medieval Treatise on Man (de Homine).

profit thereby should be purged or have their blood let.' One must note the disjunctive particle. Hippocrates did not prescribe that both of these remedies should always be used, as is the practice with some who consider it a crime to let blood without a previous purge. There are some women for whom blood-letting alone is beneficial, when they are rather plump, others who will derive advantage ...

Medieval embryology in the vernacular: the case of De spermate

Method of healing, books 1-2. While in general this works well, at times the reader will be baffled by the complexity of a note which seems to concern a topic that develops out of the actual commentary far more than one that relates closely to what Galen himself says. Conversely, many of the Realien are passed over in silence: e.g. p. 82, just what sort of hat is a pilleus/pilos? The weakest se...

Medieval Matching Markets1

This paper presents insights on the market microstructure of the late Middle Ages. In particular it looks into the institution of the broker on medieval markets and fairs. It argues that the broker was a key player in the solution of a two-sided matching market problem. The broker’s obligation was to match sellers to buyers. Medieval market makers, i.e. the town o¢ cials set up rules for broker...

Medieval marriage and superstitions.