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

Other author Givens, Jean A. (Jean Ann), 1947-
Other author Reeds, Karen.
Other author Touwaide, Alain.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.
Descriptionxx, 278 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Medicine, Medieval.
Science, Medieval.
Medical illustration--Early works to 1800.
Botanical illustration--Early works to 1800.
History, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Medical--history.
Medical Illustration--history.
Natural History--history.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
History of Medicine.

SeriesAVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art ;
AVISTA studies in the history of medieval technology, science and art. ^A790840
Contents Image, word and medicine in the Middle Ages / Peter Murray Jones -- Latin crusaders, Byzantine herbals / Alain Touwaide -- The illuminated Tacuinum sanitatis manuscripts from northern Italy ca. 1380-1400 : sources, patrons, and the creation of a new pictorial genre / Cathleen Hoeniger -- Erudition on display : the "scientific" illustrations in Pico della Mirandola's manuscript of Pliny the Elder's Natural history / Sarah Blake McHam -- Reading and writing the illustrated Tractatus de herbis, 1280-1526 / Jean A. Givens -- Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical studies in Milan : a re-examination of sites and sources / Monica Azzolini -- (Hu)moral exemplars : type and temperament in cinquecento painting / Piers D. Britton -- Leonardo da Vinci and botanical illustration : nature prints, drawings, and woodcuts ca. 1500 / Karen M. Reeds --The uses of realism in early modern illustrated botany / Claudia Swan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005033204
ISBN0754652963
ISBN9780754652960