Roger French Research Articles

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. Jon Arrizabalaga , John Henderson , Roger French

<i>The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe</i>. Jon Arrizabalaga , John Henderson , Roger French

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe, by Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French

<i>The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe</i>, by Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997) 352 pp. $35.00

<i>The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe.</i> By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997) 352 pp. $35.00

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xv plus 352pp.)

The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xv plus 352pp.)

Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, Roger French, The great pox: the French disease in Renaissance Europe, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997, pp. xv, 352, illus., £25.00 (0-300-06934-0).

Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, Roger French, The great pox: the French disease in Renaissance Europe, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997, pp. xv, 352, illus., £25.00 (0-300-06934-0).

Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature. Roger French

<i>Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature</i>. Roger French

Roger French and Andrew Cunningham, Before science: the invention of the friars' natural philosophy, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1996, pp. ix, 298, illus., £45.00 (1-85928-287-3).

Roger French and Andrew Cunningham, Before science: the invention of the friars' natural philosophy, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1996, pp. ix, 298, illus., £45.00 (1-85928-287-3).

Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy. Roger French, Andrew Cunningham

<i>Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy</i>. Roger French, Andrew Cunningham

Book Review The Great Pox: The French disease in Renaissance Europe By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French. 352 pp., illustrated. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1997. $35. 0-300-06934-0

Book Review The Great Pox: The French disease in Renaissance Europe By Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French. 352 pp., illustrated. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1997. $35. 0-300-06934-0

Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy by Roger French and Andrew Cunningham

Before Science: The Invention of the Friars' Natural Philosophy. By Roger French and Andrew Cunningham. (Brookfield, Vermont: Scolar Press, Ashgate Publishing Company. 1996. Pp. x, 298.) French and Cunningham argue in this book that there was no medieval science, but only medieval natural philosophy; and this natural philosophy, they assure us, was radically different from what we now call science:. . there was no scientific tradition (in the modern sense of the term 'scientific') of looking at nature in the thirteenth century, only a religio-political way of doing so (p. 273). What primarily differentiated medieval natural philosophy from modern science, they argue, was religion; for the medieval investigation of nature was motivated and its conclusions shaped by religious interests. As a reaction against the recent (but now moribund) tendency to write the history of medieval science as though religion did not exist, this is a salutary conclusion. French and Cunningham do an excellent job of demonstrating the religious motivation, and thus the handmaiden status, of medieval natural philosophy.They are interested especially in the natural philosophies developed by the mendicant orders in the thirteenth century: they connect the Christian Aristotelianism of the Dominicans closely and convincingly with the Church's campaign against the Cathar heresy, and they associate the Neoplatonizing Aristotelianism of the Franciscans (the Aristotelian foundations of which they somewhat belligerently refuse to acknowledge) with the ideal of mystical contemplation emanating from pseudo-Dionysius. They also offer interesting and useful surveys of the idea ofnature from antiquity through the thirteenth century, of education within the mendicant orders and its relationship to the universities, of the natural philosophical literature (including encyclopedic works) produced by the mendicants, and more. It should be clear, then, that this book has many merits. However, French and Cunningham frequently weaken their case by oversimplification and overstatement, black-and-white dichotomies, and bold claims unsupported by textual evidence. They announce, for example, that Roger Bacon studied the multiplication of species and related topicsbecause he was a Franciscan friar (p. 238); that Albert the Great was motivated by a Dominican agenda to introduce mathematics into his Aristotelian natural philosophy (p. 180); that William of Conches was motivated to study philosophy for purely religious reasons (p. 76); that Franciscans undertook the investigation of nature because of their devotion to pseudo-Dionysius (p. 218). No textual support for any of these claims is provided; no uncertainty is expressed; no qualifications (mainly for religious reasons; partly because they were Dominicans or Franciscans or devoted to pseudo-Dionysius) are offered. …

Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death

List of illustrations and tables List of contributors and editors Acknowledgements Note on names Introduction: practical medicine from Salerno to the Black Death Luis Garcia-Ballester 1. Astrology in medical practice Roger French 2. The science and practice of medicine in the thirteenth century according to Guglielmo da Saliceto, Italian surgeon Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani 3. How to write a Latin book on surgery: organizing principles and authorial devices in Gugleilmo da Saliceto and Dino del Garbo Nancy G. Siraisi 4. Derivation and revulsion: the theory and practice of medieval phlebotomy Pedro Gil-Sotres 5. Surgical texts and social contexts: physicians and surgeons in Paris, c. 1270 to 1430 Cornelius O'Boyle 6. Medical practice in Paris in the first half of the fourteenth century Danielle Jacquart 7. Royal surgeons and the value of medical learning: the Crown of Aragon, 1300-1350 Michael R. McVaugh 8. Facing the Black Death: perceptions and reactions of university medical practitioners Jon Arrizabalaga 9. John of Arderne and the Mediterranean tradition of scholastic surgery Peter Murray Jones 10. Documenting medieval women's medical practice Monica H. Green 11. A marginal learned medical world: Jewish, Muslim and Christian medical practitioners, and the use of Arabic medical sources in late medieval Spain Luis Garcia-Ballester Index.

Doctors and Ethics: The Earlier Historical Setting of Professional Ethics. Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Roger French

<i>Doctors and Ethics: The Earlier Historical Setting of Professional Ethics</i>. Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, Roger French

Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, and Roger French (eds), Doctors and ethics: the earlier historical setting of professional ethics, Clio Medica 24/Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA, Rodopi, 1993, pp. viii, 303, £17.00, Hfl. 45.00 (paperback 90–5183–553–1).

Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, and Roger French (eds), Doctors and ethics: the earlier historical setting of professional ethics, Clio Medica 24/Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA, Rodopi, 1993, pp. viii, 303, £17.00, Hfl. 45.00 (paperback 90–5183–553–1). - Volume 39 Issue 1

ECMA's approach for IT security evalutaions: Alexander Herrigel, R3 Security Engineering AG, Switzerland; Roger French, Digital Equipment Corp, USA; and Haruki Tabuchi, Fujitsu, Ltd, Japan

ECMA's approach for IT security evalutaions: Alexander Herrigel, R3 Security Engineering AG, Switzerland; Roger French, Digital Equipment Corp, USA; and Haruki Tabuchi, Fujitsu, Ltd, Japan

Matthew Ramsey. Professional and popular medicine in France, 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Lindsay Wilson. Women and medicine in the french enlightenment: The Debate over Maladies des Femmes. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Andrew Cunningham and Roger French, Eds. The medical enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Matthew Ramsey. Professional and popular medicine in France, 1770-1830: The social world of medical practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Lindsay Wilson. Women and medicine in the french enlightenment: The Debate over Maladies des Femmes. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Andrew Cunningham and Roger French, Eds. The medical enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Roy Porter. Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England. (The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine.) New York: Routledge, Chapman &amp; Hall. 1992. Pp. x, 238. $77.50. - Roger French and Andrew Wear, editors. British Medicine in the Age of Reform. (The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine.) New York: Routledge,

Roy Porter. Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England. (The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine.) New York: Routledge, Chapman &amp; Hall. 1992. Pp. x, 238. 87.50. - Volume 25 Issue 1

The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. Roger French , Andrew Wear

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. Roger French , Andrew Wear Paula FindlenPaula Findlen Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 81, Number 4Dec., 1990 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/355588 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1990 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:B. Sprus ̌il, B. Chalupa Fe–27at% Al: a resistometric study of the kinetics of order–order transformation in the DO3f phase, Intermetallics 7, no.66 (Jun 1999): 635–639.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0966-9795(98)00075-2

The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. Based on a Conference Held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Roger French , Andrew Wear

<i>The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. Based on a Conference Held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge</i>. Roger French , Andrew Wear

Roger French and Andrew Wear (eds.), The medical revolution of the seventeenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. viii, 328, £35.00, $59.50.

Roger French and Andrew Wear (eds.), The medical revolution of the seventeenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. viii, 328, £35.00, $59.50.

Book Review The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century Edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear. 328 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1989. $59.50.

Book Review The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century Edited by Roger French and Andrew Wear. 328 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1989. $59.50.