The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice

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Contents: Preface, Barbara S. Bowers. Part I On Doing Medieval Medical Research: Research procedures in evaluating medieval medicine, John M. Riddle The archives and library of the Sacre Infermeria, Malta, Theresa M. Vann Historical research developments on leprosy in France and in Western Europe, Bruno Tabuteau. Part II Physical Evidence: Archaeology and Architecture Technology: Excavations at St Mary Spital: burial of the 'sick poore' of medieval London, the evidence of illness and hospital treatment, William White Material culture of care for the sick: some excavated evidence from English medieval hospitals and other sites, Geoff Egan The hospital of Notre-Dame des Fontenilles at Tonnerre: medicine as Misericordia, Lynn T. Courtenay Function and epidemiology in Filarete's Ospedale Maggiore, Renzo Baldasso. Part III New Approaches to Written Sources: Religion and discipline in the hospitals of 13th-century France, James W. Brodman A non-natural environment: medicine without doctors and the medieval European hospital, Peregrine Horden Byzantine hospital manuals (iatrosophia) as a source for the study of therapeutics, Alain Touwaide Medieval monastic customaries on minuti and infirmi, M.K.K. Yearl Challenging the 'eye of newt' image of medieval medicine, Anne Van Arsdall. Part IV The Monastic Connection: De domo sancti lazari milites leprosi: knighthood and leprosy in the Holy Land, RafaAl Hyacinthe The infirmaries of the Order of the Temple in the medieval kingdom of Jerusalem, Piers D. Mitchell The Benedictine rule and the care of the sick: the plan of St Gall and Anglo-Saxon England, Maria A. D'Aronco. Index.