Medicine and Religion, C. 1300: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova

This book takes a fresh look at the cultural role of medicine among learned people around 1300. It was at this time that learned medicine came to be fully incorporated into the academic system and began to win greater social acceptance. Joseph Ziegler argues that physicians and clerics did not confine the role of medicine to its physical therapeutic function, and that fusion rather than disjunction characterized the relationship between medicine and religion at that time.; Much of this argument relies on language analysis and on a close study of unedited manuscript sources. By juxtaposing the.