HISTORY 3H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Syphilis, Scientific Theory, Humorism
14 Mar 2017
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Continuing influence in medieval scholasticism at universities in the form of arabic and greek learning since 12th century. Greater interest in exploring the natural world (astronomy, geography, anatomy) Printing and the creation of an international scholarly community. Influence of humanist scholarship on style, content of medical treatises. Characteristics: medical knowledge = diverse loci; some received formal training and many who did not. Local healers (knowledge of plants), midwives (childbirth and tending to ill mothers), monasteries (kept garden of medicinal plants), jews, university: body, cosmos, society = interconnected. Ibn avicenna; until the 12thc, arabic learning formed another critical foundation of university training in medicine, along with jewish medicine: arabic commentaries were crucial vehicles of ancient greek learning. Medicine formed one of the three higher faculties at most medieval universities the most prestigious at padua. Diverse nature of medical knowledge and experience underscores a shared understanding of the body that directed the nature of medical thought throughout the renaissance.
