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Article: Medicine and the Italian Universities 1250-1600. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2002
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Nancy G. Siraisi, Medicine and the Italian Universities 1250-1600 (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 12.) Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2001. x + 390 pp. $122. ISBN: 90-04-11942-6.
This valuable collection of fifteen essays, addressed to a variety of learned audiences, was written over a twenty-four year period, from 1975 until 1998. It forms a valuable supplement to the author's numerous published volumes. "The topic of this volume is medical learning considered in the context of the broader intellectual life of medieval, Renaissance and early modern Europe" (1). The author's interest has changed from an initial concentration on the ...