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Medical Similes in Religious Discourse: The Case of Giovanni di San Gimignano OP (ca. 1260–ca. 1333)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Joseph Ziegler
Joseph Ziegler
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Department of History University of Haifa
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By the beginning of the fourteenth century, medicine had acquired a cultural role in addition to its traditional functions as a therapeutic art. Medical subject matter infiltrated the religious discourse via the new thirteenth-century encyclopedic literature. Preachers came to employ in their moral analogies a wider range of medical topics, using sophisticated medical examples and citations attributed to recognized medical authorities. These developments coincided with the growing prestige of medicine as an academic discipline.

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Science in Context , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 103 - 131
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