Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts

Description

Drawing on the wealth of medical illustration to be found in medieval manuscripts, Peter Murray Jones traces the history of medieval medicine, the artistic traditions which shaped its depiction and the changing attitudes and beliefs of both medical and artistic practitioners. This beautifully produced book is a revised, colour-illustrated version of the long out-of-print Medieval Medical Miniatures first published by The British Library in 1984. Some of the manuscripts illustrated are famous because of the quality of their design and splendour of illumination, but most medical illustration was not work of such refinement and consequently has been largely ignored by historians of art. For the historian of medicine, however, these ordinary manuscripts are just as interesting as the select few because they tell so much of what it must have been like to study and practise the healing arts in medieval times, as well as providing evidence of the changing role of the book in medicine. The colour reproductions presented here reveal the extraordinary range and diversity in subject-matter and style of these illustrations. Peter Murray Jones provides the context, considering each picture as an integral part of the manuscript in which it is found, and interpreting it as a document of medical history. mdp.39015045691410-seq_1 mdp.39015045691410-seq_2 mdp.39015045691410-seq_3 mdp.39015045691410-seq_4 mdp.39015045691410-seq_5 mdp.39015045691410-seq_6 mdp.39015045691410-seq_7 mdp.39015045691410-seq_8 mdp.39015045691410-seq_9 mdp.39015045691410-seq_10 mdp.39015045691410-seq_11 mdp.39015045691410-seq_12 mdp.39015045691410-seq_13 mdp.39015045691410-seq_14 mdp.39015045691410-seq_15 mdp.39015045691410-seq_16 mdp.39015045691410-seq_17 mdp.39015045691410-seq_18 mdp.39015045691410-seq_19 mdp.39015045691410-seq_20 mdp.39015045691410-seq_21 mdp.39015045691410-seq_22 mdp.39015045691410-seq_23 mdp.39015045691410-seq_24 mdp.39015045691410-seq_25 mdp.39015045691410-seq_26 mdp.39015045691410-seq_27 mdp.39015045691410-seq_28 mdp.39015045691410-seq_29 mdp.39015045691410-seq_30 mdp.39015045691410-seq_31 mdp.39015045691410-seq_32 mdp.39015045691410-seq_33 mdp.39015045691410-seq_34 mdp.39015045691410-seq_35 mdp.39015045691410-seq_36 mdp.39015045691410-seq_37 mdp.39015045691410-seq_38 mdp.39015045691410-seq_39 mdp.39015045691410-seq_40 mdp.39015045691410-seq_41 mdp.39015045691410-seq_42 mdp.39015045691410-seq_43 mdp.39015045691410-seq_44 mdp.39015045691410-seq_45 mdp.39015045691410-seq_46 mdp.39015045691410-seq_47 mdp.39015045691410-seq_48 mdp.39015045691410-seq_49 mdp.39015045691410-seq_50 mdp.39015045691410-seq_51 mdp.39015045691410-seq_52 mdp.39015045691410-seq_53 mdp.39015045691410-seq_54 mdp.39015045691410-seq_55 mdp.39015045691410-seq_56 mdp.39015045691410-seq_57 mdp.39015045691410-seq_58 mdp.39015045691410-seq_59 mdp.39015045691410-seq_60 mdp.39015045691410-seq_61 mdp.39015045691410-seq_62 mdp.39015045691410-seq_63 mdp.39015045691410-seq_64 mdp.39015045691410-seq_65 mdp.39015045691410-seq_66 mdp.39015045691410-seq_67 mdp.39015045691410-seq_68 mdp.39015045691410-seq_69 mdp.39015045691410-seq_70 mdp.39015045691410-seq_71 mdp.39015045691410-seq_72 mdp.39015045691410-seq_73 mdp.39015045691410-seq_74 mdp.39015045691410-seq_75 mdp.39015045691410-seq_76 mdp.39015045691410-seq_77 mdp.39015045691410-seq_78 mdp.39015045691410-seq_79 mdp.39015045691410-seq_80 mdp.39015045691410-seq_81 mdp.39015045691410-seq_82 mdp.39015045691410-seq_83 mdp.39015045691410-seq_84 mdp.39015045691410-seq_85 mdp.39015045691410-seq_86 mdp.39015045691410-seq_87 mdp.39015045691410-seq_88 mdp.39015045691410-seq_89 mdp.39015045691410-seq_90 mdp.39015045691410-seq_91 mdp.39015045691410-seq_92 mdp.39015045691410-seq_93 mdp.39015045691410-seq_94 mdp.39015045691410-seq_95 mdp.39015045691410-seq_96 mdp.39015045691410-seq_97 mdp.39015045691410-seq_98 mdp.39015045691410-seq_99 mdp.39015045691410-seq_100 mdp.39015045691410-seq_101 mdp.39015045691410-seq_102 mdp.39015045691410-seq_103 mdp.39015045691410-seq_104 mdp.39015045691410-seq_105 mdp.39015045691410-seq_106 mdp.39015045691410-seq_107 mdp.39015045691410-seq_108 mdp.39015045691410-seq_109 mdp.39015045691410-seq_110 mdp.39015045691410-seq_111 mdp.39015045691410-seq_112 mdp.39015045691410-seq_113 mdp.39015045691410-seq_114 mdp.39015045691410-seq_115 mdp.39015045691410-seq_116 mdp.39015045691410-seq_117 mdp.39015045691410-seq_118 mdp.39015045691410-seq_119 mdp.39015045691410-seq_123