Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this c

A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the inters

Learn about medicine during the Renaissance period.

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renais

Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348. Originall