Nancy G Siraisi: 2 books
by Nancy G. Siraisi
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi...
Communities of Learned Experience
Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century...