[Sca-cooks] Magninus Mediolanensis and late medieval Iro-Scottish medicine and diet
emilio szabo
emilio_szabo at yahoo.it
Sun Nov 28 08:32:30 PST 2010
> > Who would have thought to find a transcription of the Latin regimen
> > sanitatis of
> > Magninus Mediolanensis in a corpus of ancient texts from Ireland.
> > Wonderful!
> Well, not really all that surprised. As I understand it, the Irish monks
> did a lot to maintain classical knowledge during the Dark Ages. There's a
> great book, *How the Irish Saved Civilization* by Thomas Cahill that
> discusses this at length.
>
> Kiri
As far as I can see the Iro-Scottish mission of the 6th/7th centuries and
onwards on the continent is unrelated to the 15th century translation of
Magninus' medical regimen sanitatis from Latin into the vernacular in Ireland
and Scotland.
What I find more interesting and still surprising is this abstract of an article
I have no access to (Maino de Maineri = Magninus Mediolanensis):
"The Scottish Historical Review
Volume 86, Number 1: No. 221, April 2007
E-ISSN: 1750-0222 Print ISSN: 0036-9241
DOI: 10.1353/shr.2007.0047
Proctor, Caroline.
Physician to The Bruce: Maino De Maineri in Scotland
The Scottish Historical Review - Volume 86, Number 1: No. 221, April 2007, pp.
16-26
Edinburgh University Press
This article pieces together evidence from fourteenth-century Scottish royal
records to identify one of the physicians to King Robert I as the Milanese
Maino de Maineri (ca 1295-1368), regent master of the University of Paris and
later court physician and astrologer to the Visconti rulers of Milan. The
implications for the history of medicine in medieval Scotland are significant,
suggesting that, at least at court level, Scots demanded and could afford and
attract a high quality of medical treatment. Also emphasised are the strong
links that existed between Scotland, Ireland and continental Europe, through
the travels of physicians and the transmission of medical literature. Three
fifteenth-century manuscripts of one of Maino's works are used as an example of
just this type of transmission. The article urges a reevaluation of medical
culture in medieval Scotland."
Does it follow from these findings that the work of Magninus/Maino is a source
for late medieval Irish or Scottish cuisine and diet?
E.
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