Online Course
The History of Medieval Medicine Through Jewish Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania via edX
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Overview
This mini-course is a general introduction to both to medieval medicine and to the value of using manuscripts. Professor Y. Tzvi Langermann presents a case study that builds from a unique 15th-century volume in which three important medical manuscripts in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew characters) are sewn together. He will not only walk the student through the basics of medical knowledge training and practice in the Jewish Middle Ages and beyond, but he will also show how clues gleaned from the particular elements of a manuscript (such as marginal notes, mistakes, and handwriting) allow us to learn a great deal that we could not have gleaned from a pristine printed version. The course is made up of eight short video lectures (5-7 minutes each) that explore the fascinating highlights of an extraordinary manuscript.
While no previous knowledge is required, this course will be of most interest to advanced students of Jewish and medieval medicine studies in that it introduces a rare and fascinating medical text from the University of Pennsylvania’s manuscript collections.
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Y. Tzvi Langermann
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5.0 rating, based on 2 reviews
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Patrick Huang completed this course.
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Jennifer White completed this course, spending 1 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be very easy.
I loved this course. It was a small informational course, and I would like more of the same, but much broader and more in depth, and something that I could use for college credit as well, but it has peaked my interest and prepared me for more courses like it in the future.