Food and the Body: Some Peculiar Questions in High Medieval Theology

Brill (1999)
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This meticulous textual-historical study explains why medieval theologians disputed whether or not the human body assimilated food, and traces the evolution of the question. It illumines the development of scholastic method and the changing attitude of theologians to natural philosophy and medicine.

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