Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.

In this work, the author contributes to our understanding of the formation of medicine as a university discipline by explaining how a collection of medical work

Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction

The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the