[Sca-cooks] Medieval Physicians

[Volker Bach]

It's a novel, right? We've got those here, too. I find the easiest approach is to avoid them entirely. 

--- Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com> schrieb am Mo, 8.3.2010:

> Von: Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com>
> Betreff: [Sca-cooks] Medieval Physicians
> An: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Datum: Montag, 8. März, 2010 21:56 Uhr
>     In reference to
> "Charlemagne and the doctors," there were no 'doctors' in
> medieval history. The correct word is physician in this
> case. Barbers, who bleed patients, were another matter.
>     Changing the subject a bit,  I have a
> problem with my colleagues because they feel no book should
> be trashed. I disagree. I feel when a book is historical
> 'crap,' it should be trashed so as to not to let readers be
> mislead. I do not believe in the inquisition but when there
> is no foundation for facts presented as history they should
> not be admitted for publication.
>     Today I started reading Matt Cohen's Spanish
> translation of THE SPANISH DOCTOR. It is about a Jewish
> physician and his family who were persecuted by the "Spanish
> Inquisition." It starts out that the physician has completed
> his medical studies in Montpelier and returned to mama's
> house the Jewish Ghetto in Toledo, Spain. (Oh, the book
> cover has a painting of the royal fortress with towers added
> by Philip II in the latter part of the 16th Century.)
> Physician preforms a cesarean on a Christian woman of
> wealth! - No man was allowed to enter the room of a woman
> giving birth during the Spanish Middle Ages. IT WAS TOTALLY
> PROHIBITED, not even Hapsburg kings were allowed in! Then
> this Canadian author, I think, calls the woman by her
> husband's last name. Spanish women keep their last names for
> their entire lives. Now our 'doctor' has feline descendants
> cause he jumps over walls, out of the ghetto, at night to
> attend his patients. Ghettos, in Spain, had curfews during
> the Inquisition under Isabella and Ferdi, not before. The
> only Jewish community that I know of that was able to flee
> from Ferdi was in Madrigal (de las Torres today), Avila by
> using tunnels. Finally the husband of the patient and the
> doctor toast to a drink. The author says Jews were not
> allowed to drink. So now we have Jews governed by Islamic
> laws?
>     Oh yeah, Mama was violated by soldiers of
> Henry I of Castile which takes us back to the late 14th
> Century. Then so called "Cardinal Rodrigo Velazquez" starts
> the inquisition from what seen on the cover. The Inquisition
> did not start until 16th Century. when Cisneros goes full
> force. Mendoza, who was not cardinal until Isabel and Ferdi,
> kept things on a low pitch the last 4th of the 15th century.
> Should we assume that in order to be historically correct,
> this doctor lived for 150 years???
> Suey
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