“Fama ou légende?”. De la vie de quelques médecins italiens d'après les témoignages médiévaux (2013)
Moulinier-Brogi, Laurence (Author)
Nicoud, Marilyn (Author)
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 21
Pages: 445--470
Publication date: 2013
Language: French
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Mittelalterliche Legenden von Philosophen und Gelehrten / The Medieval Legends of Philosophers and Scholars”
Looking for the tracks of the memory of certain doctors in the Middle Ages, one can question a wide range of sources; what emerges is the figure of an admired intellectual, with an international reputation, about whom cities sometimes compete; but practitioners also appear as a profession arising rivalries and conflicts, even critics and mockeries for specific failings. It is doubtless in the genre of the urban eulogy, a genre rapidly expanding in communal Italy, that the doctors reach completely in the group portrait. As a matter of fact, the memory of the medieval practitioners seems to have been more cultivated in Italy than in the other spaces and it can be easily explained. In Italy, the early development of the medical activity, associated associations confered from the XIIIth century on a social and intellectual recognition to the doctors, who took sometimes also an important part to the political life of the city. But behind the praising accounts, individual or collective, concerning the physicians, defaults or less glorious behaviors or actions can also be found in this laudatory literature, and we can wonder if they are real or the fruit of the imagination.We know how much the fama was important for the doctors: as they often recognize themselves, the infamia was indeed the most dreaded danger.This papers tries eventually to determine on which conditions the fama of a practitioner stops being simple fame, to become legend.
...MoreArticle Robert, Aurélien (2013) Épicure et les épicuriens au Moyen Âge. Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali (p. 3).
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