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Unit I: Defining Medieval, Defining Medicine
Powerpoint: Class Expectations, Grading Policy, etc.
Class One: Defining Medieval
Judith Bennett, Selections from Medieval Europe: A Short History, 1-8
Wim Blockmans and Peter Hoppenbrouwers, “Concepts and Interpretive Frameworks,” in Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1550, 1-9
Miri Rubin, “The ‘Middle Ages’?” (4-28)
Class Two: Defining Health and Illness
Wallis, Medieval Medicine (hereafter Wallis) Isidore of Seville, “The Four Humors of the Body,” (6-7); “Acute Diseases” (7-9); “The Wisdom of the Art of Medicine” (17-22); Jean of Touremire (344-348); Guillaume Boucher (348-351) and “The Salerno Regimen of Health” (487-492)
Rawcliffe, “The Concept of Health in Late Medieval Society” in Le interazioni fra economia e ambiente biologico nell’Europa preindustriale secc. XIII-XVIII.
Class Three: Sources I -Skeletons and Osteoarchaeology
Robin Fleming, “Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain: The Fifth to Eleventh Century,” in Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070 (London: Penguin Books, 2010), 345-366.
Milner and Boldsen, “Life not death: Epidemiology from Skeletons” International Journal of Paleopathology 17 (2017), 26-39.
Agnes Stirland, “Care in the Medieval Community”
Class Four: Sources II – Saints and Miracles
Selections from Thomas of Monmouth’s The Life and Miracles of William of Norwich,Book III, chapters xxii-xxxii
R.C. Finucane, “Medieval Families and Children’s Illnesses,” in The Rescue of Innocents: Endangered Children in Medieval Miracles (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 55-100.
Class Five: Sources III – Recipe Books and Medical Treatises
Wallis, Selections from Leechbooks I and II, (119-127); Aldobrandino of Siena (493-500)
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, “Herbs and Herbal Healing Satirized in Middle English Texts,” in Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West, eds. Anne van Arsdall and Timothy Graham, 217-230
Unit II: From Hippocrates to the New Pandemics
Class Six: Classical Medicine – Greece and Rome
Wallis, “The Fragmented Heritage of Medieval Medicine,” (3-4); Isidore “Medicine,” “The Study of Medicine,” (1-10); Aphorisms (10-13)
Class Seven: Byzantium and the Early Medieval Pandemic
Peregrine Horden, “Plague in the Age of Justinian”
Isabella Andorlini, “Medicine in Late Antiquity: Methods, Texts, and Contexts” [Available as an E-Book via Fordham Library Website. Search for Form and content of instruction in Anglo-Saxon England in the light of contemporary manuscript evidence]
Extract from Procopius’ History of the Wars
Class Eight: Islamic Medicine and the Transmission to the West
Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith, “Introduction,” and “Medical Theory” in Medieval Islamic Medicine (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007), 1-5; 5-75.
Class Nine: The Black Death and Paleoepidemiology
Wallis, “The Special Challenges of Plague” (414-430)
Selections from Horrox, The Black Death
Lester Little, “Plague Historians in Lab Coats.” Past & Present 213 (2011): 267-290.
Class Ten: New Horizons, New Diseases
Wallis, “John of Gaddesden on Smallpox,” (269-275)
Fray Bernadino de Sahagún, “Chapter Twenty Nine,” in General History of the Things New Spain,, eds. and trans. Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble.
Sheldon Watts, “Smallpox” in Epidemics and History: Disease, Power and Imperialism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997)
Unit III: The Medical Marketplace – Doctors, Barber-Surgeons, Leeches and Wise Women
Class Eleven: Professional Doctors
Wallis, “The Doctor at Court” (75-81)
Carol Rawcliffe, “The Profits of Practice: the Wealth and Status of Medical Men in Later Medieval England,” Social History of Medicine 1 (1988): 61-78.
Class Twelve: Apothecaries and Barber-Surgeons
Wallis, “Is Surgery a Science” (288-292);”A Surgical Sampler” (300-306)
Michael McVaugh, “Surgery in the Fourteenth-Century Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier”
Hannes Kleineke, “The Medicines of Katherine, Duchess of Norfolk”
Class Thirteen: Women in the Medical Marketplace
Fiona Harris-Stoertz, “Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300” [Available as an E-Book via Fordham Library Website. Search for Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages; Harris-Stoertz’ work is Chapter Two]
Iona McCleery, “Medicine and Disease: the female ‘patient’ in medieval Europe”
Hannah Ingram, “‘Pottes of Tryacle’ and ‘Bokes of Phisyke’: The Fifteenth-century Disease Management Practices of Three Gentry Families”
Class Fourteen: Who can Practice Medicine?
Wallis, “The Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs. Jacoba Felicie” (366-369), “Licensing and Accountability” (445-454)
Monica Green and Daniel Lord Smail, “The Trial of Floreta d’Ays (1403): Jews, Christians, and Obstetrics in Later Medieval Marseille,”Journal of Medieval History 34.2 (2008), 185-211.
Lori Woods, “Mainstream or Marginal Medicine: The Case of a Parish Healer named Geraula de Codines”
Unit IV – Birth, Death, and Everything In Between
Class Fifteen – Astrology and Medicine
British Library Egerton MS 827 (modernized) Skip to folio 20r, the section on astrological signs.
Roger French, “Medical Astrology”
Class Sixteen –The Medieval Doctor’s Appointment
Powerpoint – Class Sixteen [NOTE: This class was primarily in-class discussion based on primary source material]
Wallis, “The Doctor as Connoisseur of Pulses and Urines,” (38-45), John of Arderne’s Medical Etiquette (455)
Class Seventeen – Reproductive Medicine
Wallis, The Trotula, (185-190)
Monica Green, Making Women’s Medicine Masculine (2008), 1-17, 22-28
Class Eighteen – Battlefield/occupational Medicine
Wallis, Regimen Almarie (501-503)
Carol Rawcliffe, “Health and Safety at Work in Medieval East Anglia”
Piers D. Mitchell, “Trauma in the Crusader Period City of Caesarea: A Major Port in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean”
Michael McVaugh, “Arnold of Villanova’s Regimen Almarie (Regimen castra sequentium) and Medieval Military Medicine”
Class Nineteen – Managing the Dead
Wallis, “Academic Dissection” (231-247)
Park, “The Death of Isabella Della Volpe,”
Park, selections from Secrets of Women
Unit V – Defining and Managing the Sick
Class Twenty – Medieval Understandings of Mental Impairment
The Competency Inquisition of Emma de Beston
Select one essay from Madness in Medieval Law and Custom, edited by Wendy J. Turner. [Available through the Fordham Library Website]
Irina Metzler, “Cold Complexions and Moist Humors: Natural Science and Intellectual Disability”
Class Twenty-one: Medieval Understandings of Physical Impairment
Miracles of William of Norwich, Book V, chapters xiii-xvii (p. 205-209) and Book VI, xi-xii (p.242-246)
Selections from Irina Metzler, Understanding Physical Impairment in the Middle Ages
Hannah Skoda, “Representations of Disability in the Thirteenth-Century Miracles de Saint Louis,” in Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations [Available through the Fordham Library Website]
Class Twenty-Two: Leprosy and Lepers in the Middle Ages
Wallis, “The Difficult Case of Leprosy,” (339-344)
Luke DeMaitre, “Diagnosis,” in Leprosy in Premodern Medicine
Elma Brenner, “Between Palliative Care and Curing the Soul: Medical and Religious Responses to Leprosy in France and England, c. 1100-c1500,” in Medicine, Religion, and Gender in Medieval Culture (2015). [Available through the Fordham Library Website]
Class Twenty-Three: Managing the Sick & the Community in Times of Sickness
Powerpoint – Class Twenty-Three
Selections from Horrox, The Black Death [Documents 64, 65, 66 and 67]
Guy Geltner, “Public Health in the Pre-Modern City”
Carole Rawcliffe, “The View from the Streets” in Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe [available via Fordham Library Website]
Class Twenty-Four: Hospitals
Powerpoint – Class Twenty-Four
Wallis, “The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital,” and “Medical Care in a Medieval Hospital” (462-484) [Note: Though I normally scan these for you, both scanners at Walsh are malfunctioning. In the meantime, access available through the Fordham Library Website]
Peregrine Horden, “How Medicalised were Byzantine Hospitals?”
Plagues and Peoples: Health and Disease in Medieval Europe 