La Medecine medievale dans le cadre parisien, XIVe-XVe siecle.(Review)

Of no medieval university medical faculty is anything like an institutional history really possible -- a history embracing teachers, textbooks, pupils, as well as fabric and resources, and conveying something of the tone of the place. From the relatively numerous and informative deposits of the studia of Padua or Montpellier, scholars have none the less arrived at a more or less coherent narrative of intellectual development. Paris by contrast, despite various efforts to infer teaching habits from manuscripts, has resisted synoptic treatment even of that limited sort. Too few of its known masters composed medical works that survive. Questions of purpose and even authenticity …