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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154579303321

Titolo

Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550 / / edited by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, Alain Touwaide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-23494-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations

Collana

AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art ; ; Volume 5

Altri autori (Persone)

GivensJean A <1947-> (Jean Ann)

ReedsKaren

TouwaideAlain

Disciplina

610

Soggetti

Medicine, Medieval

Science, Medieval

Medical illustration

Botanical illustration

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di contenuto

1. Image, word, and medicine in the Middle Ages / Peter Murray Jones -- 2. Latin crusaders, Byzantine herbals / Alain Touwaide -- 3. The illuminated Tacuinum sanitatis manuscripts from northern Italy ca. 1380-1400 : sources, patrons, and the creation of a new pictorial genre / Cathleen Hoeniger -- 4. Erudition on display : the "scientific" illustrations in Pico della Mirandola's manuscript of Pliny the Elder's Natural history / Sarah Blake McHam -- 5. Reading and writing the illustrated Tractatus de herbis, 1280-1526 / Jean A. Givens -- 6. Leonardo de Vinci's anatomical studies in Milan : a re-examination of sites and sources / Monica Azzolini -- 7. (Hu)moral exemplars : type and temperament in cinquecento painting / Piers D. Britton -- 8. Leonardo da Vinci and botanical illustration : nature prints, drawings, and woodcuts ca. 1500 / Karen M. Reeds -- 9. The uses of realism in early modern illustrated botany / Claudia Swan.