Medieval schools
Roger French
The Latin medical tradition was a long time in forming. Medicine remained Greek with Galen, and might have become Celsus, but the loss of Western Empire little over two centuries after Galen's death meant end any elaborate form Roman medicine. All Celsus most Galen unknown until Middle Ages. Learned rational medicine survived Eastern Empire, which lasted thousand years longer than Western. tried to recover by establishing exarchates, for example Italy, it seems been such places that some works were translated into Latin. There main centres teaching east, Constantinople Alexandria; there an Alexandrian Salerno area sixth seventh centuries, is known Abbey Montecassino received copy Aphorisms as gift tenth century. In mid-twelfth century schools favoured Jews; monasteries area; political economic growth also its cultural development. But Alexandria taken brief period Persians then Islamic Arabs, who very rapidly swept through North Africa, up Spain (beginning 711) Occitania.
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