Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages

Medicine And Law: The Confluence Of Art And Science In The Middle Ages / Wendy J. Turner And Sara M. Butler -- Compensating Body And Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs / Han Nijdam -- Midwives In The Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300 / Fiona Harris-stoertz -- Learned Men And Skillful Matrons: Medical Expertise And The Forensics Of Rape In The Middle Ages / Hiram Kümper -- Expert Examination Of Wounds In The Criminal Court Of Justice In Cocentaina (kingdom Of Valencia) During The Late Middle Ages / Carmel Ferragud -- Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses And Medical Expertise In The Criminal Courts Of Late Medieval Italy / Joanna Carraway Vitiello -- Mental Health As A Foundation For Suit Or An Excuse For Theft In Medieval English Legal Disputes / Wendy J. Turner -- Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery And Medicine In Fourteenth And Fifteenth-century Bologna / Kira Robison -- Medical Licensing In Late Medieval Portugal / Iona Mccleery -- Dreaming Of Valencia's Social Order In Jaume Roig's Espill / Jean Dangler -- Portrait Of A Surgeon In Fifteenth-century England / Sara M. Butler -- An Infirm Man: Reading Francis Of Assisi's Retirement In The Context Of Canon Law / Donna Trembinski -- Medicine And Miracle: Law Enforcement In The Lives Of Irish Saints / Máire Johnson -- Concluding Remarks / Katherine D. Watson Edited By Wendy J. Turner & Sara M. Butler. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.