The thesis concerns a research on the medical theory present in fourteenth-century Florence and London and look at how this translated in the measures their local authorities took against the...Show moreThe thesis concerns a research on the medical theory present in fourteenth-century Florence and London and look at how this translated in the measures their local authorities took against the plague. Through this, an attempt has been made to determine how medical theory could be exercised in either a similar or different matter, and thus determine whether an English city was truly as backwards as some historians claim or if its authorities did provide sanitary regulations against the plague. The research limits itself to the period 1347 to 1400, thus on the plague outbreaks of the fourteenth centuryShow less
Dysentery was a common disease in medieval England. This thesis entails a comparison of the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of dysentery in Old English and Middle English medical texts, as well...Show moreDysentery was a common disease in medieval England. This thesis entails a comparison of the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of dysentery in Old English and Middle English medical texts, as well as an analysis of the various remedies’ effectiveness against this disease. The methodology consists of a comparative analysis between early and late medieval medical texts, in the light of relevant scholarship on medieval medicine and modern medical research, based on close readings of these texts.Show less
As my thesis, I have made a critical edition of two pseudo-Hippocratic texts in the fifteenth-century manuscript Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 513, a medical miscellany. The two texts edited...Show moreAs my thesis, I have made a critical edition of two pseudo-Hippocratic texts in the fifteenth-century manuscript Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 513, a medical miscellany. The two texts edited revolve around the influence of astronomy and astronomical concepts, in particular the positions of certain planets in the houses of the zodiac, on medieval medicine. This thesis also includes an introduction to medieval medicine that places the edited texts in their context, as well as an analysis of the manuscript, the script, and the language.Show less
