Table of Contents

List of illustrations and tables; List of contributors and editors; Acknowledgements; Note on names; Introduction: practical medicine from Salerno to the Black Death Luis García-Ballester; 1. Astrology in medical practice Roger French; 2. The science and practice of medicine in the thirteenth century according to Guglielmo da Saliceto, Italian surgeon Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani; 3. How to write a Latin book on surgery: organizing principles and authorial devices in Gugleilmo da Saliceto and Dino del Garbo Nancy G. Siraisi; 4. Derivation and revulsion: the theory and practice of medieval phlebotomy Pedro Gil-Sotres; 5. Surgical texts and social contexts: physicians and surgeons in Paris, c. 1270 to 1430 Cornelius O'Boyle; 6. Medical practice in Paris in the first half of the fourteenth century Danielle Jacquart; 7. Royal surgeons and the value of medical learning: the Crown of Aragon, 1300–1350 Michael R. McVaugh; 8. Facing the Black Death: perceptions and reactions of university medical practitioners Jon Arrizabalaga; 9. John of Arderne and the Mediterranean tradition of scholastic surgery Peter Murray Jones; 10. Documenting medieval women's medical practice Monica H. Green; 11. A marginal learned medical world: Jewish, Muslim and Christian medical practitioners, and the use of Arabic medical sources in late medieval Spain Luis García-Ballester; Index.

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Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.