Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge

This book examines the social, institutional and cultural setting of medical practices in the medieval town of Montpellier which boasted one of the first universities of the middle ages and a famous school of medicine. Some of its most celebrated masters and their medical works have been thoroughly studied but few of them try to put these in context with a thriving urban community of merchants and craftsmen that were at the core of the city council. Their concurrent efforts will endow Montpellier of a rich health care system featuring not only the university masters but also the city’s barber-surgeons and apothecaries. Their collective fate is revealed here in an integrated picture of health and society in the middle ages.

Geneviève Dumas, Ph.D. (2001), McGill University, is Professor of Medieval Studies at Université de Sherbrooke. Her research focuses on the circulation of scientific, technical and medical ideas around the Mediterranean, especially in the setting of the medieval town of Montpellier.