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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 fif- teenth 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 unique- ness 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.
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- Religió
Medicina
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- https://www.academia.edu/16291266/_Medicine_and_Dev ...
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