Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550 / edited by Jean A. Givens, Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide.

Aldershot, Hants : Ashgate, [2006], ©2006.

xx, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Image, word and medicine in the Middle Ages / Peter Murray Jones -- Latin crusaders, Byzantine herbals / Alain Touwaide -- The illuminated Tacuinum Sanitatis Manuscripts from Northern Italy circa 1380-1400 / Cathleen Hoeniger -- Erudition on Display / Sarah Blake McHam -- Reading and writing the illustrated Tractatus de herbis, 1280-1526 / Jean A. Givens -- Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical studies in Milan / Monica Azzolini -- (Hu)moral Exemplars -- Leonardo da Vinci and botanical illustration / Karen M. Reeds --The uses of realism in early-modern illustrated botany / Claudia Swan.

Includes bibliographical references.