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Michele Savonarola, A Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics (Edition, Introduction and Notes by Gabriella Zuccolin; transl. by Martin Marafioti)
No full textAround 1460, Michele Savonarola—incidentally the grandfather of the even more famous Savonarola, the Florentine prophet Girolamo —produced the extraordinary Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara. This gynecological, obstetrical, and pediatric treatise is the first of its kind written in a European vernacular, so that it could be potentially read not only by the learned, who communicated in Latin, but also by pregnant and nursing mothers and the midwives and wet nurses who presided over childbirth. Yet Savonarola’s work is no trivial set of instructions but the work of a learned scholar who draws on, among others, the ancient Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, and Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine
Summa doctrina et certa experientia. Studi su medicina e filosofia per Chiara Crisciani
No full textThis volume offers Chiara Crisciani twenty essays by colleagues and friends to celebrate her seventieth birthday. The contributions
reflect Crisciani’s manifold research interests from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century: the relationship between medicine and philosophy; alchemy; the connection between natural philosophical themes and theological, ethical and political issues; theories of
knowledge and epistemology; experience and practice-oriented knowledge. The volume also includes an introduction by the editor and a complete list of Crisciani’s publications
“E cussì se fanno homicidiale di proprii fioli”: i parti gemellari tra teorie mediche e implicazioni morali dall'antichità al tardo Medioevo
No full text"E cussì se fanno homicidiale di proprii fioli": twin births between medical theory and moral implications from Antiquity to the late Middle Ages.
The essay aims to provide a brief overview of the evolution, continuities and changes of past medical theories related to twins. Although we now understand the causes underlying the birth of fraternal twins, exactly how and why identical twins result from the exact split of one fertilised egg-cell still remains a mystery to embryologists today. We can only guess at how mysterious both these processes must have appeared to our antique, medieval and early modern ancestors, who knew nothing about egg-cells, spermatozoa, and menstrual cycle as specifically linked to reproduction. Special emphasis is placed on the gendered dimension of past understandings of twins, who were often regarded as the by-product of adulterine, illegitimate and immoral women’s behaviour. Women, therefore, were increasingly considered morally responsible, beyond their biological input, for the birth and (often) the death of their twin offspring
Recensione a Maria Pia Donato; Luc Berlivet; Sara Cabibbo; Raimondo Michetti; Marilyn Nicoud (eds). Médecine et religion: Collaborations, compétitions, conflits (XII-XX siècle)
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