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  • The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654

    by Ole Peter Grell ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm’s collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, resulting in Worm’s rationale for his research being largely overlooked. Worm shared his many interests ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe

    by Ole Peter Grell ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on the honest working population, or are they a necessary presence for the true Christian to live the true Christian life? In the 18th and 19th centuries what happened to the poor and the sick-poor in the north and south of Europe was ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Impact of the European Reformation

    Princes, Clergy and People

    by Ole Peter Grell ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies, with high-level research confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume counteracts this centrifugal trend and provides a broad perspective on the impact of the European reformation. The essays present new research ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England

    by Ole Peter Grell ...
    This volume is a synthesis of the research articles of one of Europe’s leading scholars of 16th-century exile communities. It will be invaluable to the growing number of historians interested in the religious, intellectual, social and economic impact of stranger communities on the rapidly changing nation that was Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Southern England in general, and London in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • It All Depends on the Dose

    Poisons and Medicines in European History

    Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, Jon Arrizabalaga ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Centres of Medical Excellence?

    Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500–1789

    by Andrew Cunningham ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been travelling long distances for their education since universities were first founded in the 13th century, making their own educational pilgrimage or peregrinatio. This volume deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of the travelling ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Medicine and the Reformation

    Edited by Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell ...
    The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent.Medicine and the Reformation charts how both popular and official religion affected orthodox medicine as ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe

    by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual charity. By the eighteenth century, however, the rapid social and economic changes brought about by industrialisation put these systems ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

    by Andrew Cunningham ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this means that the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, there are growing indications in recent scholarship that this may ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe

    Edited by Jon Arrizabalaga, Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell ...
    The role of religion was of paramount importance in the change of attitudes and approaches to health care and charity which took place in the centuries following the Council of Trent. Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe, examines the effects of the Counter-Reformation on health care and poor relief in Southern Catholic Europe in the period between 1540 and 1700.As well as a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700

    Edited by Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid growth and central and local administrations saw considerable expansion. This volume provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in the economically important regions of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Brethren in Christ

    A Calvinist Network in Reformation Europe

    by Ole Peter Grell ...
    This groundbreaking book explores the migration of Calvinist refugees in Europe during the Reformation, across a century of persecution, exile and minority existence. Ole Peter Grell follows the fortunes of some of the earliest Reformed merchant families, forced to flee from the Tuscan city of Lucca during the 1560s, through their journey to France during the Wars of Religion to the St Bartholomew ... Read more

    $31.99 USD