Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction: The Christus medicus Tradition 1
7. 1 The Virgin Mary as Nurse, Medicine and Mother: Devotional Texts and Hospitals 27
8. 2 Sacramental Medicine and Frequent Communion from Prague to Kraków 67
9. 3 Disenfranchised Surgeons: Christus chirurgus and Wycliffite Preaching in England 113
10. 4 The Diseased Ecclesia from Jan Hus’s Exile to the Council of Basel 159
11. 5 Responses to Heresy at the Councils of Constance and Basel 201
12. Afterword 227
13. Bibliography 233
14. Index 265