Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Medicine and Law: The Confluence of Art and Science in the Middle Ages -- Medical Matters in Law and Administration of Law -- Chapter 1 Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs -- Chapter 2 Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300 -- Chapter 3 Learned Men and Skilful Matrons: Medical Expertise and the Forensics of Rape in the Middle Ages -- Chapter 4 Expert Examination of Wounds in the Criminal Court of Justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages -- Chapter 5 Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval Italy -- Chapter 6 Mental Health as a Foundation for Suit or an Excuse for Theft in Medieval English Legal Disputes -- Professionalization and Regulation of Medicine -- Chapter 7 Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Bologna -- Chapter 8 Medical Licensing in Late Medieval Portugal -- Chapter 9 Dreaming of Valencia's Social Order in Jaume Roig's Espill -- Chapter 10 Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England -- Medicine and the Law in Hagiography -- Chapter 11 An Infirm Man: Reading Francis of Assisi's Retirement in the Context of Canon Law -- Chapter 12 Medicine and Miracle: Law Enforcement in the Lives of Irish Saints -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- Index.

The scholarly collection of Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages examines connections between doctors, lawyers, laws, regulations, professionalization, administration, literature, hagiography and health from an international perspective.

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