Marilyn Nicoud

Food consumption, a health risk ? Norms and medical practice in the Middle Ages

The health regimen was a medical genre developed in Western Europe as of the 13th century and is one of the main sources attesting the interest that professionals working on health devoted to the dangers incurred in eating. This medical genre, part of an ancient tradition, was well known by the elites of the time. The surviving texts reveal themselves to be extremely attentive to contemporary food consumption and provided their readers with the necessary recommendations in order to enable them to take care of their health.

Manuscrits médicaux latins de la bibliothèque nationale de France: Un index des ?uvres et des auteurs

L’index des textes medievaux de medecine conserves a la Bibliotheque nationale de France ici presente est le premier fruit d’un travail collectif etale sur plusieurs decennies. Deliberement limite aux œuvres medicales stricto sensu (a l’exclusion de l’art veterinaire, de l’alchimie ou de la philosophie naturelle) et aux textes rediges avant 1500, il regroupe pres de 2300 entrees, reparties entre anonymes (environ 740) et auteurs (environ 1540), le tout refletant le depouillement de plus de 500 manuscrits.