Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy

Auteur

Patrick Outhwaite

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A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings.

Résumé
A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings.

Contenu

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Christus Medicus Tradition 1. The Virgin Mary as Nurse, Medicine and Mother: Devotional Texts and Hospitals 2. Sacramental Medicine and Frequent Communion from Prague to Kraków 3. Disenfranchised Surgeons: Christus Chirurgus and Wycliffite Preaching in England 4. The Diseased Ecclesia from Jan Hus's Exile to the Council of Basel 5. Responses to Heresy at the Councils of Constance and Basel Bibliography Index