Abstract
Marginalia miscellanea medica in Croatian Glagolitic Monuments: A Model for Interdisciplinary Investigations. Small sporadic Croatian Glagolitic texts dealing with medical subjects, which we group together under the general title marginalia, have value in investigating medieval and early modern medical history. They appear on church walls and in books whose primary purpose is not medical, dating from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. Graffiti, amulets, prayers, notes, small chronicles, and recipes illustrate the main phases in the development of medical thought: demonistic, magical-religious, empirical. These approaches to disease and healing coexisted through centuries, so texts presented in this paper can be positioned between medicine and religion as well as between medicine and literature. The functional syncretism characteristic of Croatian Glagolitic literature makes an interdisciplinary-philological and medicohistorical-approach a necessity, with the aim to point out possibilities as wel...
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