L’objectiu d’aquest article és efectuar una lectura de l’Espill des de l’angle de les estructures familiars de la València del segle xv. Jaume Roig atribueix la culpa dels desastres en què ara i adés cauen les famílies a les maniobres ominoses de la dona, com a esposa o viuda. L’adjectivació misògina és tan hiperbòlica que, per regla general, s’ha interpretat en clau còmica. Aquest article es planteja els límits d’aquesta suposada comicitat.
This paper shows how the surgeon was a central piece in the medical care of the sick, a figure with great power and status within the complex institution that was the General Hospital of Valencia during the 16th century. To that end, we first analyze the evolution of this post up until the creation of the position of senior surgeon, taking into account both its normative and actual functions. Then we look at the role of surgeons in the treatment of "morbo gallico" in this institution.
The Medieval Mediterranean was a privileged space for cultural, political and scientific exchange, with Sicily and the Iberian kingdoms playing a prominent role. Through trade routes and dynastic connections, these regions facilitated the circulation of medical ideas, manuscripts and health professionals. This article explores the networks of medical knowledge in this context, with an emphasis on the interaction between the Sicilian and Catalan-Aragonese courts. In particular, the social and administrative organisation of the Crown of Aragon allowed the creation of a vast corpus of documents, coveringmultiple aspects of the social and cultural history of medicine and health, both human and veterinary. One of the significant advances in the conservation of and access to this documentation is the MedCat initiative (Corpus Medicorum Catalanorum), a key tool in the study of human and animal health, which stands out for its wide possibilities of access and interdisciplinary analysis. MedCat also promotes the necessary synergies to ensure that this documentation is not lost or remains out of reach for research, thanks to the possibilities of classification and dissemination offered by Digital Humanities.
The Catalan Proverbis de Salom & oacute; is a collection of roughly one hundred admonitions and wisdom sentences preserved in three didactic-moral miscellanies copied between the last quarter of the 14th and the first third of the 15th century. Although all three witnesses have been described and edited, the collection had not received the critical attention it deserved, particularly considering its prominent role in the transmission of medieval Catalan wisdom and proverbial literature. Because of this, this work focuses mainly on the analysis of the manuscript contexts in which the text appears and the overall configuration of the miscellanies it participates in. Furthermore, a study of the textual relationships among the three witnesses and a brief exploration of the thematic structure of the collection is included. Finally, a synoptic edition of the text from the three witnesses is offered.
This work centres on a partial copy of the Epistola Aristotelis, as well as on a series of recipes and relative descriptions for the maintenance or loss of memory, in Ms. 155 of the Real Academia Espa & ntilde;ola, where its owner included some brief middle-fifteenth century biographical details. This helps confirm his interest in having a health regimen-a genre dating back from the twelfth century-ready to hand, and in some behavioural guidelines to be considered at a late stage in his life.
