Medieval Medicine

Medieval Medicine is an overlooked topic within the study of medical history itself; mostly, the Middle Ages from the fall of Rome until the era of the Renaissance is regarded as dark and backwards, with a regression of life and technology. This book argues otherwise; the methodology of medicine during that period actually advanced in some areas (especially with regards to surgery and sanitation) and between the schools of Salerno and Montpellier especially, medicine was, in some ways, as advanced in the 600s AD as in the 19th century. It even explores the unique upward mobility of women in medicine- a mobility not elsewhere often afforded.