Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900

Download or read book Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c.775-900 written by Claire Burridge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied texts by not only analysing their practical usability, but by also re-evaluating these writings in the light of osteological evidence. Could those individuals with access to the manuscripts have used them in the context of therapy? And would they have wanted to do so? In asking these questions, this book unpacks longstanding assumptions about the intended purposes of medical texts, offering a new perspective on the relationship between medical knowledge and practice.