Medical knowledge in thirteenth-century preaching: the sermons of Luca da Bitonto
<p>Metaphors of physical health and illness occurred frequently in medieval exegesis, with diseased bodies providing figurative language that could be applied to sin and its effects upon the soul. The increasing availability of newly translated medical learning in Europe in the thirteenth cent...
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Taylor and Francis
2022
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