"Modern scholars have decisively shown that in the Middle Ages there was not a clear divide between religion and medicine, yet the true significance of the conn

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This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medici

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This volume of three Studies concentrates on the changes in religious thought and institutions in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and includes not only monk