Alumni Lecture: Faith Wallis, How to Think like a Physician: Master Bartholomeus and the Transformations of Medicine in 12th-Century Europe

Faith Wallis, Professor Emerita at the Department of History & Classical Studies / Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University, revisits the Centre for Medieval Studies to deliver the Annual Alumni Lecture, with a presentation titled, How to Think like a Physician: Master Bartholomeus and the Transformations of Medicine in 12th-Century Europe. RSVP to attend in person, or virtually via Zoom.

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Biography

Faith Wallis is a historian of medieval Europe, specializing in the history of science and medicine. She has published translations and studies of medieval time-reckoning (computus) and medicine. Her current research focuses on medical education and the transmission of medical knowledge in the 12^th century. She is preparing an edition of the earliest commentaries on the Articella, the first anthology of medical texts designed to support formal teaching to be created in Western Europe, for the "Edizione nazionale Scuola Medica Salernitana" (Florence). The Articella marks the birth of academic medicine, and these commentaries allow us to reconstruct the intellectual dynamics of this crucial event. She has also edited the full five-book version of On the natures of things (De naturis rerum) by the English scholar Alexander Neckam (d. 1217), for the series "British Writers of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period". Prof. Wallis teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of medicine, ancient medicine, medieval medicine, and general medieval history.