Middle Ages. Issue 78 (1-2)

The issue is opened by a constant section "neighboring regions, related disciplines." This time, the history of medieval medicine is presented on the pages of the magazine. The heading discusses the ratio of confession and medical diagnostics, ideas about the body and soul in the medical literature, criticism of medical authorities in the Renaissance, a polemic of surgeons of the XV-XVI centuries. On gunshot wounds and the rivalry of surgery corporations with university doctors. The authors are both domestic historians and doctors, and specialists from the USA, France and the UK. The issue also presents a thematic block along medieval heraldry. The artistic language of the English herbavors is analyzed and the practice of scolding the coat of arms in the Middle Ages is considered in detail. A series of publications dedicated to agrarian history in the early Middle Ages and medieval onomastics continues. A special place in the room is given to such an important problem as the history of self -regulating city communities in the Middle Ages. As always, the number contains a section on the history of domestic media, as well as a large section on discussions and reviews.
For historians and a wide circle