Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in the orders' decision making, the extent of their participation in treatments, their relationship with physicians or their own involvement in medical practice, and the problems which occurred as a result of these matters. Apart from brief details of the last illness noted in some convent obituaries, the sick friar is usually conspicuous by his absence from the records. Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries addresses this absence.