History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

"Siraisi shows the many-dimensioned overlaps and interactions between medicine and 'history' in the early modern period, marking a pioneering effort to survey a neglected discipline. Her book follows the changing usage of the classical term 'history' both as empiricism and as a kind of scholarship in the Renaissance before its more modern analytical and critical applications. It is a marvel of erudition in an area insufficiently studied."
---Donald R. Kelley, Emeritus James Westfall Thompson Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and Executive Editor of Journal of the History of Ideas

"This is a salient but little explored aspect of renaissance humanism, and there is no doubt that Siraisi has succeeded in throwing light onto a vast subject. The scholarship is wide-ranging and profound, and breaks new ground. The choice of examples is fascinating, and it puts renaissance documents into a new context. This is a major book, well written, richly learned and with further implications for more than students of medical history."
---Vivian Nutton, Professor, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, and author of From Democedes to Harvey: Studies in the History of Medicine

"A fascinating study of Renaissance physicians as avid readers and enthusiastic writers of all kinds of history: from case narratives and medical biographies to archaeological and environmental histories. In this wide-ranging book, Nancy Siraisi demonstrates the deep links between the medical and the humanistic disciplines in early modern Europe."
---Katharine Park, Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University

"Siraisi has been recognized for groundbreaking contributions to the history of early modern European medicine. This book is yet another."
---Choice

"History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is an auspicious beginning for the University of Michigan Press's new series, 'Cultures of Knowledge in the Early Modern World' which it inaugurates."
---Daniel Stolzenberg

"Historians of medicine and of historiography alike will read her book with pleasure and profit, but it deserves a wider audience."
---Brian W. Ogilvie, Renaissance Quarterly