In recent decades, interest in the history of Medieval and Early Modern medicine has expanded consistently. New critical editions of medical works have been produced, new studies with respect to the historical, social, intellectual, scientific, and literary background and development of medicine between the fifth and the eighteenth century have been provided.
The recent flourishing of those studies has not found any correspondence yet in the creation of a specific book series that could function as a conveyor of updated knowledge on the field and new, promising research paths.
With the launch of the series 'Speculum Sanitatis: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medical Culture (500-1800)', it is our intention to fill this gap, and to provide scholars with both wide ranging and methodologically innovative studies concerning the history of medicine between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.
The aim of the series is to publish both monographs and collections of essays devoted to the history of European medicine, with special reference to history of medical literary and intellectual culture, and to the connections between medicine and the history of ideas. Monographs and collected volumes submitted and accepted for the Series should be written in English, French, and German.
General Editors
- Iolanda Ventura, Università di Bologna
- Karl Enenkel, Universität Münster
Editorial Board
- Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute
- Michael McVaugh, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Faith Wallis, McGill University