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Richard Gameson, Reader in Medieval History at Kent University and editor of St Augustine and the Conversion of England; Clare Lees, Professor of Medieval Literature at King's College London and author of Tradition and Belief: Religious Writing in Late Anglo-Saxon England
She has appeared on History Hit's Art Detective and Gone Medieval podcasts, Hidden Histories with Helen Carr, HistoryExtra podcast, Sick to Death's A History of Medicine in 10 Objects, Killing Time with Rebecca Rideal, and BBC Countryfile's plodcast. [26] [27] [28] [29]
In Europe the medieval concept of Christian care evolved during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into a secular one. [95] Theology was the problem. The Protestant reformers rejected the Catholic belief that rich men could gain God's grace through good works – and escape purgatory – by providing endowments to charitable institutions ...
Mitchell, Piers D. Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds, and the Medieval Surgeon (Cambridge University Press, 2004) 293 pp. Porter, Roy.The Greatest Benefit to Mankind. A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present. (HarperCollins 1997) Siraisi Nancy G (2012). "Medicine, 1450–1620, and the History of Science". Isis.
Herbals are one of the largest and most well-known contributions of monastic schools to science, offering some of the most comprehensive amounts of historical evidence. Monasteries were, and are still today, isolated centers. This meant that they had to be able to provide treatment for themselves, including treating the monks who would become ill.
Russell published widely, largely on medieval European history and the history of Christian theology. His first book was Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages (1965). He is most noted for his five-volume history of the concept of the Devil : The Devil (1977), Satan (1981), Lucifer (1984), Mephistopheles (1986) and The Prince of Darkness ...
Medieval Christian texts (14 C, 9 P) Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England (7 C, 32 P) Christianity in Francia (4 C, 24 P) Medieval churches (12 C, 22 P)
The Schola Medica Salernitana (Italian: Scuola Medica Salernitana) was a medieval medical school, the first and most important of its kind. Situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea in the south Italian city of Salerno , it was founded in the 9th century and rose to prominence in the 10th century, becoming the most important source of medical knowledge in ...