Slavery in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
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The Problem of Saccharization for a Urethra Injuries
It'd be interesting to know whether there are accounts of this, perhaps in some of those medical writings which circulated in the Islamic world and were translated in medieval Spain. And that's one of, I mean, it might have been left out because people just didn't think was relevant to conditions in Northern Europe. But, but we hear about, even at Christian courts, the court of Roger II, the Norman King of Sicily in 12th century,. One of his advisors, Michael Philip of Mater, who came from what's now Tunisia. He became Admiral of the fleet, and was then put to death, probably for losing the battles, but also accused of having been born a Muslim.
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