Publisher's Synopsis
The studies collected here, and prefaced with a substantial new introduction, help to elucidate the principal directions taken by medicine in Western Europe from the renaissance of the 12th century to that of the 16th. The first sections draw on Professor Jacquart?s research on the influence of Arabic medical texts in the Latin West. She looks at the significance of the choices made by two key translators, Constantine the African and Gerard of Cremona, and at the formation of the western medical vocabulary, with specific attention to the manner in which Arabic terms and concepts were accommodated. Other studies then examine the establishment of medicine as an intellectual discipline at Salerno and in the universities, and the series of questions thrown up in the 15th century by the realisation of the discrepancies that existed between what was taught in books, and what was observed in reality.
