Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages

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Acknowledgements ...ix About the Authors ...x Abbreviations ...xiii Medicine and Law: The Confluence of Art and Science in the Middle Ages ...1 Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler Medical Matters in Law and Administration of Law ...23 1 Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs ...25 Han Nijdam 2 Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300 ...58 Fiona Harris-Stoertz 3 Learned Men and Skillful Matrons: Medical Expertise and the Forensics of Rape in the Middle Ages... 88 Hiram Kumper 4 Expert Examination of Wounds in the Criminal Court of Justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages ...109 Carmel Ferragud 5 Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval Italy... 133 Joanna Carraway Vitiello 6 Mental Health as a Foundation for Suit or an Excuse for Theft in Medieval English Legal Disputes ...157 Wendy J. Turner Professionalization and Regulation of Medicine ...175 7 Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Bologna ...177 Kira Robison 8 Medical Licensing in Late Medieval Portugal... 196 Iona McCleery 9 Dreaming of Valencia's Social Order in Jaume Roig's Espill...220 Jean Dangler 10 Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England ...243 Sara M. Butler Medicine and the Law in Hagiography ...267 11 An Infirm Man: Reading Francis of Assisi's Retirement in the Context of Canon Law ...269 Donna Trembinski 12 Medicine and Miracle: Law Enforcement in the Lives of Irish Saints ...288 Maire Johnson Concluding Remarks ...317 Katherine D. Watson Works Cited ...328 Index...369