Article ID: CBB657013511

Death as a Destiny and the Hope of Long Life in the Latin Middle Ages (2018)

unapi

This paper shows how in Western culture an intense interest grew about the prolongation of life, and especially so in the 13th and 14th centuries. This interest was shared by physicians, philosophers, theologians, and alchemists. The debate about this subject was particularly concerned with the medical concept of radical moisture, the condition of Adam in Eden, and the fruit of lignum vitae. Special considertion is given by this paper to the points of view held by Roger Bacon and by Ps. Lull.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB657013511/

Similar Citations

Thesis Matus, Zachary Alexander; (2010)
Heaven in a Bottle: Franciscan Apocalypticism and the Elixir, 1250--1360 (/isis/citation/CBB001560805/)

Article Agostino Paravicini Bagliani; (2018)
The Prolongation of Life and its Limits. Western Europe, XIIIth-XVIth c. (/isis/citation/CBB843072414/)

Chapter Chiara Crisciani; (2019)
Sensi e Ingenium in alchimia e chirurgia (/isis/citation/CBB971142790/)

Book Sylla, Edith Dudley; Newman, William Royall; (2009)
Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine Essays in Honor of John E. Murdoch (/isis/citation/CBB001220782/)

Book Azélina Jaboulet-Vercherre; (2014)
The Physician, the Drinker, and the Drunk: Wine's Uses and Abuses in Late Medieval Natural Philosophy (/isis/citation/CBB876618926/)

Article Ernesto Riva; (2019)
Il difficile cammino della materia medica presso i monaci dell’alto medioevo (/isis/citation/CBB812510771/)

Article Danielle Jacquart; (2017)
L’harmonie des parties du corps entre Moyen Âge et Renaissance (/isis/citation/CBB257155938/)

Article Livia Radici; (2010)
Notizia sul Tractatus VIII de pertinentibus ad venena et animalia venenosa (/isis/citation/CBB059903647/)

Chapter Hackett, Jeremiah; (2003)
Astrology and the Search for an Art and Science of Nature in the 13th C. (/isis/citation/CBB000430291/)

Book Francesco Paolo de Ceglia; (2020)
The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB516817724/)

Article DeVun, Leah; (2008)
The Jesus Hermaphrodite: Science and Sex Difference in PremodernEurope (/isis/citation/CBB001030606/)

Book Fidora, Alexander; Lutz-Bachmann, Matthias; (2007)
Erfahrung und Beweis: die Wissenschaften von der Natur im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert (/isis/citation/CBB001020200/)

Article Didier Kahn; (2018)
Quintessence and the Prolongation of Life in the Works of Paracelsus (/isis/citation/CBB983986033/)

Article Matus, Zachary; (2013)
Resurrected Bodies and Roger Bacon's Elixir (/isis/citation/CBB001213516/)

Authors & Contributors
Hackett, Jeremiah M. G.
Tonetti, Luca
Radici, Livia
Jaboulet-Vercherre, Azelina
Ziegler, Joseph
Sylla, Edith Dudley
Concepts
Medicine
Natural philosophy
Alchemy
Medicine and religion
Philosophy
Death
Time Periods
Medieval
13th century
14th century
Renaissance
15th century
16th century
Places
Europe
Italy
France
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment