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Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages /
The scholarly collection of Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages examines connections between doctors, lawyers, laws, regulations, professionalization, administration, literature, hagiography and health from an international perspective.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Medieval law and its practice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Medicine and Law: The Confluence of Art and Science in the Middle Ages; Medical Matters in Law and Administration of Law; Chapter 1. Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs; Chapter 2. Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300; Chapter 3. Learned Men and Skilful Matrons: Medical Expertise and the Forensics of Rape in the Middle Ages; Chapter 4. Expert Examination of Wounds in the Criminal Court of Justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages.
- Chapter 5. Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval Italy; Chapter 6. Mental Health as a Foundation for Suit or an Excuse for Theft in Medieval English Legal Disputes; Professionalization and Regulation of Medicine; Chapter 7. Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Bologna; Chapter 8. Medical Licensing in Late Medieval Portugal; Chapter 9. Dreaming of Valencia's Social Order in Jaume Roig's Espill; Chapter 10. Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England.
- Medicine and the Law in Hagiography; Chapter 11. An Infirm Man: Reading Francis of Assisi's Retirement in the Context of Canon Law; Chapter 12. Medicine and Miracle: Law Enforcement in the Lives of Irish Saints; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; Index.