Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky is a detailed study of the medicine of Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval mystic, theologian and composer, who also wrote a practical medical text. Although there has been an explosion of interest in Hildegard's music, theology, illuminations and medicine in the last two decades, this is the first book to use her remarkable text to revise not only our conception of Hildegard but also of premodern medicine itself. It does so by contextualizing her work with primary and secondary historical sources, unedited manuscripts, anthropological and archeological evidence and linguistic analyses. Its surprising conclusion is that the premodern body was more like a plant than a machine or a computer program, and the physician more like a gardener than a mechanic or a computer programmer.
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quattuor humoribus, calor innatus, vinegared wine, green humor, quatuor humoribus, explicit humors, red choler, compositae medicinae, simplicis medicinae, humidum radicale, premodern medicine, wind diagrams, cardinal winds, circulating wind, internal humors, predictum est, medical miscellanies, infirmary garden, vitae meritorum, black choler, premodern system, greening power, divinorum operum, medicinal herb garden, humoral theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Books Three, Book One, Book Two, Middle Ages, Church Fathers, Book Four, Books One, Last Day, Patrologia Latina, Book Five, Book Three, Vita Hildegardis, Hildegard of Bingen, Laurence Moulinier, William of Conches, Archbishop of Mainz, Benedictine Rule, Hermann Fischer, Hildegard of the Vita, Honorius Augustodunensis, Van Engen, Danielle Jacquart, Eliza Glaze, Holy Spirit, Isidore's Etymologies New!
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quattuor humoribus, calor innatus, vinegared wine, green humor, quatuor humoribus, explicit humors, red choler, compositae medicinae, simplicis medicinae, humidum radicale, premodern medicine, wind diagrams, cardinal winds, circulating wind, internal humors, predictum est, medical miscellanies, infirmary garden, vitae meritorum, black choler, premodern system, greening power, divinorum operum, medicinal herb garden, humoral theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Books Three, Book One, Book Two, Middle Ages, Church Fathers, Book Four, Books One, Last Day, Patrologia Latina, Book Five, Book Three, Vita Hildegardis, Hildegard of Bingen, Laurence Moulinier, William of Conches, Archbishop of Mainz, Benedictine Rule, Hermann Fischer, Hildegard of the Vita, Honorius Augustodunensis, Van Engen, Danielle Jacquart, Eliza Glaze, Holy Spirit, Isidore's Etymologies New!
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- Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life by Sabina Flanagan on 9 pages
- Hildegard of Bingen by Heinrich Schipperges on 5 pages
- Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions by Don Bates on 4 pages
- Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death by Luis Garcia-Ballester in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters (The Middle Ages Series) by Catherine M. Mooney in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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