Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 ... The monasteries also preserved ancient ideas about medicine.

The monastery libraries held copies of books ... al-Rāzī became chief physician at Baghdad's hospital. Medieval thinking about medicine evolved in Europe through encounter the Middle Eastern ...

These reflected early medieval ecclesiastical concerns in regulating ... This prohibition is repeated in the penitential of the Monte Cassino monastery. Likewise in Spanish penitentials, the ...

CC BY 2.0. This series examines monastic movements amid broader religious and cultural ... the eclectic collection includes medieval manuscripts as well as materials of interest for the study of the ...

Unedited and surviving in a single manuscript, Adam draws heavily on Ibn Sina's 11th century Canon of Medicine ... of some ...