Medival Medicine (jan 1, 400 – jan 1, 1400)
Description:
Peroid lasting from the 5th – 6th centuries to the mid 15th ADMarked by major political and intellectual development
Started with the fall of the western roman empire
Rise of Islam and the conquest of North Africa and Spain in the 7th and 8th centuries
Political turmoil led to a decline of learning in Western Europe up to about 1000 and a slow recovery in the new millennium, with the retrieval and translation of ancient texts and the establishment of new centers of learning
Cathedral schools were major centers of learning, like madrasas or schools attached to mosques in the Islamic world. Chartres Cathedral (France) was a center of medical learning
Abbeys and monasteries were also centers of learning.
Uroscopy – The study of Urine was a Common Medieval Practice
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Date:
jan 1, 400
jan 1, 1400
~ 1000 years