Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26906-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 744 g

Reihe: Medieval Law and Its Practice

Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages offers fresh insight into the intersection between these two distinct disciplines. A dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography. The articles include subjects such as medical expertise at law on assault, pregnancy, rape, homicide, and mental health; legal regulation of medicine; roles physicians and surgeons played in the process of professionalization; canon law regulations governing physical health and ecclesiastical leaders; and connections between saints’ judgments and the bodies of the penitent. Drawing on primary sources from England, France, Frisia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, the volume offers a truly international perspective.

Contributors are Sara M. Butler, Joanna Carraway Vitiello, Jean Dangler, Carmel Ferragud, Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Maire Johnson, Hiram Kümper, Iona McCleery, Han Nijdam, Kira Robison, Donna Trembinski, Wendy J. Turner, and Katherine D. Watson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Turner, Wendy

Butler, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements …ix
About the Authors …x
Abbreviations …xiii

Medicine and Law: The Confluence of Art and Science in the Middle Ages …1
Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler

Medical Matters in Law and Administration of Law …23
1 Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs …25
Han Nijdam
2 Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600–1300 …58
Fiona Harris-Stoertz
3 Learned Men and Skillful Matrons: Medical Expertise and the Forensics of Rape in the Middle Ages… 88
Hiram Kümper
4 Expert Examination of Wounds in the Criminal Court of Justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages …109
Carmel Ferragud
5 Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval Italy… 133
Joanna Carraway Vitiello
6 Mental Health as a Foundation for Suit or an Excuse for Theft in Medieval English Legal Disputes …157
Wendy J. Turner

Professionalization and Regulation of Medicine …175
7 Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Bologna …177
Kira Robison
8 Medical Licensing in Late Medieval Portugal… 196
Iona McCleery
9 Dreaming of Valencia’s Social Order in Jaume Roig’s Espill…220
Jean Dangler
10 Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England …243
Sara M. Butler

Medicine and the Law in Hagiography …267
11 An Infirm Man: Reading Francis of Assisi’s Retirement in the Context of Canon Law …269
Donna Trembinski
12 Medicine and Miracle: Law Enforcement in the Lives of Irish Saints …288
Máire Johnson

Concluding Remarks …317
Katherine D. Watson

Works Cited …328
Index…369

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy J. Turner, Ph.D. (2000), UCLA, is Professor of History at Georgia Regents University. Her monograph is Care and Custody of the Mentally Ill, Incompetent, and Disabled in Medieval England (Brepols, 2013). Well published, she has edited two other volumes.
Sara M. Butler, Ph.D. (2001), Dalhousie University, is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of two books, most recently Divorce in Medieval England: From One to Two Persons in Law (Routledge, 2013).