Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine

Part I. Medicine, Commentaries and the Medieval Classroom

1. Medicine in Some Thirteenth-Century Biblical Commentaries, with a Flashback on Augustine’s De genesi ad litteram

Danielle Jacquart

2. In a Montpellier Classroom
Michael McVaugh

Part II. Medicine, Writing History and the Republic of Letters

3. Medicine as Queen: The Consilia of Bartolomeo da Montagnana
Chiara Crisciani

4. John Caius, Historian
Vivian Nutton

5. A Medical Man Among Ecclesiastical Historians: John Caius, Matthew Parker and the History of Cambridge University
Anthony Grafton

6. A Medical Collection Anatomized: The Catalogus bibliothecae Hieremiae Martii (1572)
Ian Maclean

Part III. Medicine, Collections and Their Illustrations

7. The Death of a Naturalist: Knowledge and Community in Late Renaissance Italy
Paula Findlen

8. The Dedication Strategies of Conrad Gessner
Ann Blair

9. Imagination, Maternal Desire and Embryology in Thomas Fienus
Hiro Hirai

10. Gerardus Blasius and the Illustrated Amsterdam Observationes from Nicolaas Tulp to Frederik Ruysch
Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Nyckelord: History, History of Science, Humanism, History of Education, History of the Book