The developing understanding of Human Health and Fitness: 4. The Middle Ages

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  • Roy J. Shephard Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education, University of Toronto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/hfjc.v5i3.125

Keywords:

Barber/surgeons, Black Death, Health infra-structure, Herbal remedies, Medical schools, Monasteries, Quarantine, Sheltered housing, State medical services. Tournaments, Wise Women

Abstract

In Northern Europe, collapse of the Roman civilization was marked initially by a loss of almost all classical learning, with local tribes reverting to a pattern of subsistence hunting and primitive agriculture. However, despite the sacking of some important libraries, many classical texts were conserved in the Byzantine and Arab worlds. Thus, the earlier knowledge of Greece and Rome was progressively recovered; key documents were translated into Arabic and the Anglo-Saxon vernacular, and the spread of monastic Christianity brought clerics who could read Greek and Latin texts to the northern provinces of Europe.

Author Biography

Roy J. Shephard, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education, University of Toronto

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education, University of Toronto

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Published

2012-09-30

How to Cite

Shephard, R. J. (2012). The developing understanding of Human Health and Fitness: 4. The Middle Ages. The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, 5(3), 18–46. https://doi.org/10.14288/hfjc.v5i3.125

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