What's Wrong with Early Medieval Medicine?
Peregrine Horden
The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures magic and folklore, general lack those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medicine. This paper attempts rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a number superficially bizarre so as place them in an intellectual sociological context, suggest presumed contrast between counterparts has wrongly drawn.
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