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Darrera modificació: 2019-05-03
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Green, Monica H., "«Habeo istos libros phisicales»: the changing form, content, and professional function of the medical book in the long twelfth century", dins: Kwakkel, Erik - Thomson, Rodney (eds)., The European Book in the Long Twelfth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Pres, 2018, pp. 277-292.
- Resum
- The “long twelfth century” (c. 1075 to c. 1225) witnessed a remarkable growth in both the medical profession and medical learning. The two developments were not unrelated. What ties them together is an explosion in medical books: in their numbers, in the range of texts they contain, in their geographic distribution. The “medical book” was a singular entity only in the subject matter of its content, not in any common codicological features beyond those that characterized most books of the period. Most of the creative activity in medical writing (either in editing, translating, or newly composing) was centered in southern Italy. The coastal city of Salerno has long been credited for the major developments in medicine in this period, but this essay argues that we should also look to the abbey of Monte Cassino. This house was responsible both for much that would define the contents of newly produced medical books in the long twelfth century, and also, to a more limited degree, the images that would distinguish such books. Translation programs centered on Antioch and Toledo as well, but these had nothing like the impact that southern Italy did in creating a standardized medical learning across western Europe based, not on any shared institutions, but on these very books themselves.
- Matèries
- Història del llibre
Història de la medicina
Traduccions
Llatí
Manuscrits
Codicologia
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/15028826/Monica_H._Green_M ...
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