Medicine in the medieval world is often treated in a static manner as if a single picture of the body, a unitary understanding of disease, and unvarying practices of healing held sway for a millennium. Medieval Medicine: A Reader challenges this view by documenting the change and complexity in medieval medical thinking and practice.Renowned scholar Faith Wallis has compiled more than 100 unique primary sources that demonstrate how medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. She illustrates a constant process of engagement-rather than rivalry-between medical doctrines, and ideas on the one hand and healing practices (professional, informal, secular, and religious) on the other. The collection contains both core texts, such as the 1348 report of the Paris Medical Faculty on the causes of the plague, as well as lesser known material. Ten illustrations, a glossary of medical terms, a bibliography, and an index are all included.