History 2812E Lecture Notes - Jinn, Middle Ages, Black Death
7 Dec 2012
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Prof says consider note how people are seeing the boundaries between the natural and supernatural. Second note the way medical thinkers and practitioners are using new approaches, adapting, rejecting new and old approaches. Key to this transformation of the roman world is the role of christianity. Christianity started as sect of judaism and eventually proclaims its own religion 3rd cent ad. It begins to grow steadily (is a minority still though). Christians would not worship the roman gods like asclepius. They would not incubate over night in the temple. Theses christians and jews have their own ways to deal with medicine. Late 4th cent roman empire declares christianity as their official religion. People who are in power that are christian or jewish will take down these asclepian temples. They see these temples as a rival. (idol?) There is vandalism to these temples by some christian groups. There is a mixture of different approaches to disease.
