La Forêt au Moyen Âge

Lyon et ses pauvres au moyen-âge (1350–1500)

NICOLE GONTHIER, Lyon et ses pauvres au moyen-age (1350-1500), Lyons, Editions L'Hermes, 1978, 8vo, pp. 271, illus., F.5 1.00 (paperback). This study is inspired by a desire to reveal those who have been "hidden from history" using whatever documents are available for the period. Relying heavily on wills, church archives, and fiscal documents, Gonthier has skilfully reconstructed the changing m...

La médecine à Montpellier, Vol. 1, Le Moyen Âge

Epizootologie et Prophylaxie de la Fièvre Aphteuse au Moyen-Orient

La Folie au Moyen Age, XIe–XIIIe siècles

was a significant force in the creation of the school's identity. Brodel created a style which is remarkably bold realistically, yet which, as he recognized, simplified the field to permit the viewer to see only what was intended. The authors of this handsomely produced volume describe Brodel's life in great detail on the basis of a large number of family letters. It is in fact more of a person...

Bibliographie des textes médicaux latins. Antiquité et haut moyen âge

ALINE ROUSSELLE, Porneia: on desire and the body in antiquity, trans. Felicia Pheasant, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988, 8vo, pp. x, 213, £19.95. This is a provocative, innovative, and erudite study of attitudes towards the body in antiquity, and, in particular, in the Roman Empire during the transition from paganism to Christianity from the second to the fifth century. Dr Rousselle breaks away f...