This article describes a series of Problem Based Learning assignments in a class called "Medieval... more This article describes a series of Problem Based Learning assignments in a class called "Medieval Medicine."
This is an uncorrected copy; please do not cite. Published version: “Care of the Breast in the La... more This is an uncorrected copy; please do not cite. Published version: “Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages: the Tractatus de passionibus mammillarum,” in Sharon Strocchia and Sara Ritchey, eds., Gendered Histories of Health, Healing and the Body, 1250-1550. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 119-137.
The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum, a short treatise written in fifteenth-century Italy, det... more The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum, a short treatise written in fifteenth-century Italy, details treatments for women who experienced painful breast engorgement while lactating. It is primarily a translation of a chapter concerning the breast taken from the Lilium medicine of the Montpellier physician, Bernard de Gordon. The author of the Tractatus, however, eliminates most of Bernard’s commentary. The treatments are simple combinations of herbs, minerals, and liquids meant to be applied to the skin as plasters or poultices. This essay contextualizes the Tractatus within the historiography and literature of breastfeeding and provides a brief transcription and translation of its original recipe. It argues that the Tractatus represents a ‘hybrid’ form of healthcare and body knowledge that bridged household and academy.
This article describes a series of Problem Based Learning assignments in a class called "Medieval... more This article describes a series of Problem Based Learning assignments in a class called "Medieval Medicine."
This is an uncorrected copy; please do not cite. Published version: “Care of the Breast in the La... more This is an uncorrected copy; please do not cite. Published version: “Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages: the Tractatus de passionibus mammillarum,” in Sharon Strocchia and Sara Ritchey, eds., Gendered Histories of Health, Healing and the Body, 1250-1550. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 119-137.
The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum, a short treatise written in fifteenth-century Italy, det... more The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum, a short treatise written in fifteenth-century Italy, details treatments for women who experienced painful breast engorgement while lactating. It is primarily a translation of a chapter concerning the breast taken from the Lilium medicine of the Montpellier physician, Bernard de Gordon. The author of the Tractatus, however, eliminates most of Bernard’s commentary. The treatments are simple combinations of herbs, minerals, and liquids meant to be applied to the skin as plasters or poultices. This essay contextualizes the Tractatus within the historiography and literature of breastfeeding and provides a brief transcription and translation of its original recipe. It argues that the Tractatus represents a ‘hybrid’ form of healthcare and body knowledge that bridged household and academy.
The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum, a short treatise written in fifteenth-century Italy, det... more The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum, a short treatise written in fifteenth-century Italy, details treatments for women who experienced painful breast engorgement while lactating. It is primarily a translation of a chapter concerning the breast taken from the Lilium medicine of the Montpellier physician, Bernard de Gordon. The author of the Tractatus, however, eliminates most of Bernard's commentary. The treatments are simple combinations of herbs, minerals, and liquids meant to be applied to the skin as plasters or poultices. This essay contextualizes the Tractatus within the historiography and literature of breastfeeding and provides a brief transcription and translation of its original recipe. It argues that the Tractatus represents a 'hybrid' form of healthcare and body knowledge that bridged household and academy.
This is an uncorrected copy; please do not cite. Published version: “Care of the Breast in the La... more This is an uncorrected copy; please do not cite. Published version: “Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages: the Tractatus de passionibus mammillarum,” in Sharon Strocchia and Sara Ritchey, eds., Gendered Histories of Health, Healing and the Body, 1250-1550. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 119-137.
Despite our popular understanding of the European middle ages as a dirty, disease-ridden, hopeles... more Despite our popular understanding of the European middle ages as a dirty, disease-ridden, hopelessly backward period, the sources show us quite a different picture. Although a lack of understanding of the means of genetic change and the cause of viral and bacterial disease caused medieval people to understand the human body very differently than we do, their medical systems were not without logic and efficacy. This course explores the human body and its diseases in the middle ages through a series of connected readings that introduce the body as a conceptual system and medieval science's attempts to understand it. We use the growing field of genomic research as a way of understanding and comparing our modern systems of understanding the body to those in the past. By exploring the field of pathogenomics, we also explore how newer scientific technologies are helping historians learn about the past in new ways.
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