ABOUT THIS BOOK

A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. With remarkably detailed scholarship, Siraisi investigates doctors’ efforts to explore the legacies handed down to them from ancient medical and anatomical writings.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Nancy G. Siraisi is one of the preeminent scholars of medieval and Renaissance intellectual history. Now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a 2008 winner of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, her books include The Clock and the Mirror (1997), and the widely used textbook Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine (1990), which won the Davis Prize from the History of Science Society. In 2004 she received the Renaissance Society of America’s Paul Oskar Kristellar Award, and in 2005 she received the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction.

REVIEWS

“A fascinating study of Renaissance physicians as avid readers and enthusiastic writers of all kinds of history: from case narratives and medical biographies to archaeological and environmental histories. In this wide-ranging book, Nancy Siraisi demonstrates the deep links between the medical and the humanistic disciplines in early modern Europe.”
— Katharine Park, Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Research Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

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“This is a salient but little explored aspect of Renaissance humanism, and there is no doubt that Siraisi has succeeded in throwing light onto a vast subject. This is a major book, well written, richly learned and with further implications for more than students of medical history.”
—Vivian Nutton, Professor, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London

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“Historians of medicine and of historiography alike will read her book with pleasure and profit.”
—Brian W. Ogilve, Renaissance Quarterly

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction Chapter 1: Teaching Them: The Great Omission of the Great Commission Chapter 2: Missionaries Training Nationals: How Much Is Enough? Chapter 3: The Bare Minimum: What Must We Teach? Chapter 4: Missionaries and Nationals: Who Should Teach? Chapter 5: Learning from Paul: Missiological Methods of the Apostle to the Gentiles Chapter 6: Search Versus Harvest Theology: Reaching or Teaching? Chapter 7: Techniques and Tools: The Greater Good, CPMs, and What Only God Can Do Chapter 8: Equipping Disciples: Theological Education and the Missionary Task Chapter 9: Primary Oral Learners: How Shall They Hear? Chapter 10: Critical Contextualization: The Balance Between Too Far and Not Far Enough Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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