Social History of Medicine Special Issue
THE YEAR 1000: MEDICAL PRACTICE AT THE END OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM
Special issue of Social History of Medicine, vol. 13.2 (2000)
Guest editors Peregrine Horden and Emilie Savage-Smith
Historians of medicine join in the celebrations of the new millennium by
looking back a thousand years. The eight essays in this collection provide a
thematically and geographically coherent exploration of the medical world of
the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries - a period of our medical past which
has received relatively little scholarly or popular attention. The focus is
on the three cultures which, in differing ways, inherited the medical legacy
of classical antiquity: western Christendom (especially England, France and
Italy), Byzantium, and medieval Islam. Contributors emphasize practice
rather than theory. Yet by examining the full range of evidence that the
period has left us, they reveal not only the scale and vigour of the
practice but also the often surprising extent to which practice and theory
could part company.
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