Health Sickness Medicine And The Friars In The Thirteenth And Fourteenth Centuries Angela Montford by Angela Montford 9781351931212, 9780754636977, 0754636976, 1351931210, 2003063795 instant download after payment.

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in the orders' decision making, the extent of their participation in treatments, their relationship with physicians or their own involvement in medical practice, and the problems which occurred as a result of these matters. By focusing on these neglected aspects of the mendicant orders it is possible to begin to reconstruct their attitudes and practices towards sickness, health and medical treatment. Through such an approach, Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries demonstrates how preserving health as well as treating illness were matters of interrelated and vital concern to the friars, a concern that coincided with a rising interest in health matters in wider society during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.