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1 online resource (392 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Medieval Law and Its Practice
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Medieval law and its practice.
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| Contents |
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. |
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Chapter 5 Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval ItalyChapter 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. |
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Medicine and the Law in HagiographyChapter 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Medical jurisprudence -- History.
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Medical jurisprudence. |
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History. |
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Medical laws and legislation.
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Medical laws and legislation. |
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Medicine, Medieval -- History.
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Medicine, Medieval. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Butler, Sara M. (Sara Margaret)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Turner, Wendy J. (Wendy Jo), 1961-. Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages. Leiden : BRILL, ©2014 9789004269064 |
| ISBN |
9789004269118 |
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9004269118 |
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9789004269064 |
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9004269061 |
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