Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550Jean Ann Givens, Karen Reeds, Alain Touwaide This volume represents a conversation among scholars in fields at the intersection of the history of art, science, and medicine. It focuses chronologically and geographically on what most scholars would regard as the high and late Middle Ages from Byzantium to the British Isles. |
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Contents
Image Word and Medicine in the Middle Ages | 1 |
Latin Crusaders Byzantine Herbals | 25 |
The Illuminated Tacuinum sanitatis Manuscripts from Northern | 51 |
The Scientific Illustrations in Pico della | 83 |
Reading and Writing the Illustrated Tractatus de herbis 12801526 | 115 |
A Reexamination | 147 |
Type and Temperament in Cinquecento Painting | 177 |
Nature Prints | 205 |
The Uses of Realism in Early Modern Illustrated Botany | 239 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550 Volume 5 of AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art |
| Editors | Jean Ann Givens, Karen Reeds, Alain Touwaide |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 |
| ISBN | 0754652963, 9780754652960 |
| Length | 278 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Medieval Medical / History |
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