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Medicine, Fast and Slow | Victoria Sweet, MD

The Doctor's Art

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The Importance of Medieval Studies in Medical History

In college I was an amateur medievalist. I wrote a thesis on the marginal illustrations of gospel books produced in Ireland between the 7th and the 9th centuries. English developed in the middle ages and it didn't really develop much about that. And I think just in general, separate from Hildegard of Bingen, I think what we call the middle ages is a hugely important part of our cultures.

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