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Gardenour, Brenda S.

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Medicine and miracle: The reception of theory-rich medicine in the hagiography of the Latin West, 13th--14th centuries.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Medicine and miracle: The reception of theory-rich medicine in the hagiography of the Latin West, 13th--14th centuries./
Author:	Gardenour, Brenda S.
Description:	428 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Deeana Copeland-Klepper.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-01A.
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3298638
ISBN:	9780549430360

Medicine and miracle: The reception of theory-rich medicine in the hagiography of the Latin West, 13th--14th centuries.
Gardenour, Brenda S.

Medicine and miracle: The reception of theory-rich medicine in the hagiography of the Latin West, 13th--14th centuries. - 428 p.

Adviser: Deeana Copeland-Klepper.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2008.

This dissertation examines the phenomenon of medicalization in hagiographical texts in both the greater European and Iberian milieus. North of the Pyrenees, thirteenth- and fourteenth-century hagiographers increasingly utilized medical language, gleaned from sources such as the Viaticum, Liber Almansoris, and the Canon, to both name diseases and describe the symptoms suffered by supplicants in cases of miraculous healing. The role of the physician in these medicalized miracle tales was not only as a stock character, or type, but increasingly a figure of authority that reflected that changing status of the physician in medieval society. Hagiographers depicted physicians examining patients, defining and diagnosing diseases, and prescribing a variety of cures, including plasters, ointments, dietary restrictions, baths, and in extreme cases, surgery; while the physician and his cures routinely fail to heal the patient in these miracle texts, he is nevertheless a figure of authority whose pronouncement of incurability leads the supplicant to the shrine of the saint to be healed. Authors included references to learned medical theories and practices in their texts in response to several concurrent and overlapping intellectual and cultural shifts, including the translation and dissemination of theory-rich medical texts into the universities of the Latin West, the proliferation of medical practice and the concomitant medicalization of society, and the full institution of the process of canonization, which demanded the testimony of learned physicians to proclaim the condition of the supplicant incurable and therefore the thaumaturgical act as truly miraculous. Despite contact with learned medicine in both text and practice, hagiography written in the kingdoms of Castile-Leon and Aragon reveals little evidence of medicalization. The paradox of a medicalized society without medicalized miracles can be attributed in part to the unique cultural and religious proclivities of Northern Iberia, including the methods of reception and dissemination of learned medical texts, the absence of a university-based academic milieu, and cultural preferences for older, established saints which were linked directly to the experience of---and justification for---the Reconquista.

ISBN: 9780549430360Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

Medicine and miracle: The reception of theory-rich medicine in the hagiography of the Latin West, 13th--14th centuries.
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