Roger French

• Introduction: The ‘Long Fifteenth Century’ of Medical History. 2. Jewish Treatsies on the Black Death (1350-1500): A Preliminary Study. 3. Mater Medicinarium: English Physicians and the Alchemical Elixir in the Fifteenth Century. 4. Fascinating Women: The Evil Eye in Medical Scholasticism. 5. Medicine at the German Universities, 1348-1500: A Preliminary Sketch. 6. Stones, Bones and Hernias: Surgical Specialists in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth Century Italy. 7. Treatment of Hernia in the Later Middle Ages: Surgical Correction and Social Construction. 8. Thomas Fayreford: An English Fifteenth-Century Medical Practicioner. 9. The Death of a Medieval Text: The Articella and the Early Press. 10. Epidemics and the State Medicine in Fifteenth-Century Milan. 11. Coping with French Disease: University Practicioners’ Strategies and Tactics in the Transition from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Century. 12. Anatomical Rationality.

Roger French

• Introduction: The ‘Long Fifteenth Century’ of Medical History. 2. Jewish Treatsies on the Black Death (1350-1500): A Preliminary Study. 3. Mater Medicinarium: English Physicians and the Alchemical Elixir in the Fifteenth Century. 4. Fascinating Women: The Evil Eye in Medical Scholasticism. 5. Medicine at the German Universities, 1348-1500: A Preliminary Sketch. 6. Stones, Bones and Hernias: Surgical Specialists in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth Century Italy. 7. Treatment of Hernia in the Later Middle Ages: Surgical Correction and Social Construction. 8. Thomas Fayreford: An English Fifteenth-Century Medical Practicioner. 9. The Death of a Medieval Text: The Articella and the Early Press. 10. Epidemics and the State Medicine in Fifteenth-Century Milan. 11. Coping with French Disease: University Practicioners’ Strategies and Tactics in the Transition from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Century. 12. Anatomical Rationality.

Roger French

• Introduction: The ‘Long Fifteenth Century’ of Medical History. 2. Jewish Treatsies on the Black Death (1350-1500): A Preliminary Study. 3. Mater Medicinarium: English Physicians and the Alchemical Elixir in the Fifteenth Century. 4. Fascinating Women: The Evil Eye in Medical Scholasticism. 5. Medicine at the German Universities, 1348-1500: A Preliminary Sketch. 6. Stones, Bones and Hernias: Surgical Specialists in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth Century Italy. 7. Treatment of Hernia in the Later Middle Ages: Surgical Correction and Social Construction. 8. Thomas Fayreford: An English Fifteenth-Century Medical Practicioner. 9. The Death of a Medieval Text: The Articella and the Early Press. 10. Epidemics and the State Medicine in Fifteenth-Century Milan. 11. Coping with French Disease: University Practicioners’ Strategies and Tactics in the Transition from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Century. 12. Anatomical Rationality.