Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages

"Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages offers fresh insight into the intersection between these two distinct disciplines. A dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medici...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Turner, Wendy Jo, 1961-
Awduron Eraill: Butler, Sara M., 1952- (Cyfarwyddwr cyhoeddi)
Fformat: Livre papier
Iaith:Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd: Leiden ; Boston (Mass.) : Brill C 2014.
Cyfres:Medieval law and its practice vol. 17
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Edition sous un autre format:• Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages, edited by Wendy J. Turner & Sara M. Butler, Leiden, Brill, 2014, Medieval law and its practice, 978-90-04-26911-8
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • P. 1
  • Medicine and law : the confluence of art and science in the middle ages / Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler
  • P. 23
  • Medical matters in law and administration of law
  • P. 25
  • 1. Compensating body and honor : the old frisian compensation tariffs / Han Nijdam
  • P. 58
  • 2. Midwives in the middle ages ? Birth attendants, 600 1300 / Fiona Harris-Stoertz
  • P. 88
  • 3. Learned men and skillful matrons : medical expertise and the forensics of rape in the middle ages / Hiram Kümper
  • P. 109
  • 4. Expert examination of wounds in the criminal court of justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the late middle ages / Carmel Ferragud
  • P. 133
  • 5. Forensic evidence, lay witnesses and medical expertise in the criminal courts of late medieval Italy / Joanna Carraway Vitiello
  • P. 157
  • 6. Mental health as a foundation for suit or an excuse for theft in medieval english legal disputes / Wendy J. Turner
  • P. 175
  • Professionalization and regulation of medicine
  • P. 177
  • 7. Making right practice ? Regulating surgery and medicine in fourteenth and fifteenth-century Bologna / Kira Robison
  • P. 196
  • 8. Medical licensing in late medieval Portugal / Iona McCleery
  • P. 220
  • 9. Dreaming of Valencia s social order in Jaume Roig s Espill / Jean Dangler
  • P. 243
  • 10. Portrait of a surgeon in fifteenth-century England / Sara M. Butler
  • P. 267
  • Medicine and the law in hagiography
  • P. 269
  • 11. An infirm man : reading Francis of Assisi s retirement in the context of canon law / Donna Trembinski
  • P. 288
  • 12. Medicine and miracle : law enforcement in the lives of irish saints / Máire Johnson
  • P. 317
  • Concluding remarks / Katherine D. Watson