HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Headache, Septicemic Plague, Medicalization

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12 Mar 2014
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Medieval medicine the birth of academic medicine. New and vibrant europe in the central middle ages. Some nations have very centralised monarchies and coherent frontiers, whilst others are less organised e. g. holy. Roman empire = a vast patchwork of differing jurisdictions. Italy is important because of salerno reputation from antiquity as a health resort = doctors congregated because there was a clientele even in antiquity as a professional congregation. Southern italy = many greek speaking communities whilst also close to muslim north africa and has contact with the arabic speaking world. Set up to become the place where medical translations would occur constantine the african (d. ca. Translated arabic works into latin had patrons paying him to do this inc. the archbishop of salerno. Enterprise is driven by patrons willing to bankroll a project like this actually it is coming through the church which is leading to an interest in medicine.

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