The body and surgery in the Middle Ages

Abstract

Part 1 The surgeon's profession in the fourteenth century - reality and symbolism: Mondeville at grips with divisions in the worlds of learning and medicine the beginnings of scientific discourse of principalities and powers domains of popular and learned belief the sacred and polluted demiurge. Part 2 the body and its diseases - submerged images: preamble - the methodology bodies of men - society and the world of work buildings, architecture and the macrocosm the body under attack from Nature the body turns in on itself the body and its metaphors - some general remarks.