HIST 5312 - Medicine, Miracles, and Magic: Early History of Healing in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Three credit hours.

A holistic examination of various ways in which Europeans sought to cure disease in pre-modern time. Magic, folk cures, and miracles, as well as the work of physicians, apothecaries, and barber surgeons. The emergence of medicine as a profession and a science. How university-trained physicians came to dominate the healing professions.