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Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550

Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550

Hardcover

Series: Avista Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Scienc, Book 5

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0754652963
ISBN13: 9780754652960
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 20 2006
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550 addresses fundamental questions about the interplay of visual and verbal communication in medieval medicine, pharmacy, and natural history. Analyzing images in works as diverse as herbals, jewellery, surgery manuals, lay health guides, cinquecento paintings, manuscripts of Pliny's Natural History, and Leonardo's notebooks, the essays ask: What counts as medical illustration in the Middle Ages? What purposes and audiences do these illustrations serve? How do images of natural objects, observed phenomena, and theoretical concepts amplify texts and convey complex cultural attitudes? Why do we regard some of these images as medieval productions while other exactly contemporary images strike us as typically early modern in character?

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