To mark the sixtieth year of this rich career, thirteen scholars from eight countries have produced a volume of essays honouring the man who was to some of them a teacher, to others a collaborator, to all a friend and model. The subjects covered are those that have most interested Prof. Derolez and have earned him worldwide renown.

Studies on medicine and the human body from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond, working towards the authority of Vesalius.

This book gathers specialists from a variety of fields to explore the possibilities of the material perspective in the study of religion.