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Dinkova-Bruun, Greti, "Medicine and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages", Filologia Mediolatina, 22 (2015), 239-256.
- Resum
- This article presents an edition and a brief analysis of one late medieval devotional poem addressed to the Virgin Mary and entitled Oratio de Domina multum utilis. The poem is preserved in a single manuscript copied in Wrocław in the fifteenth century and now London, British Library, Additional 18922. Even though it belongs to a rich tradition of personal devotional poetry, the Oratio analysed here exhibits a novel approach to describing the healing powers of the Virgin and to extolling her reputation as divina medicina for the Christian believer.The uniqueness of the piece is revealed in its highly technical medical vocabulary that suggests that its author, in addition to being an accomplished poet, was a medicus or an apothecarius with impressive empirical knowledge of the medical practices of his time.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
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- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/16291266/_Medicine_and_Dev ...
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