Luke Demaitre

Biographic Data

ID4877178
NAMELuke Demaitre
GIVEN NAMESLuke
FAMILY NAMEDemaitre
SIGNATUREDEMAITRE L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Virginia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West by Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt (review)

    Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2015

    Reviewed by: Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West by Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt Luke Demaitre Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt. Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. xiv + 243 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-8014-5135-5). This study extends the concentration on philanthropy of Miller’s monographs on The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire (19…

  • Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body

    Luke Demaitre, Katherine RoyerARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2009

    While premodern poets and preachers viewed leprosy as a disease of the soul, physicians in the period understood it to be a cancer of the whole body. In this innovative study, medical historian Luke Demaitre explores medical and social perspectives on leprosy at a time when judicious diagnosis could spare healthy people from social ostracization and help the afflicted get a license to beg. Extending his inquiry from the first century to late in t…

  • Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts . László Sándor Chardonnens

    Luke DemaitreARTICLESpeculum2009

  • Tussen autoriteit en empirie: De Middelnederlandse chirurgieën in de veertiende en vijftiende eeuw en hun maatschappelijke context . Erwin Huizenga

    Luke DemaitreARTICLESpeculum2006

  • Los pronosticos medicos en la medicina medieval: El "Tractatus de Crisi et de Diebus Creticis" de Bernardo de Gordonio (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2005

    Reviewed by: Los pronósticos médicos en la medicina medieval: El "Tractatus de Crisi et de Diebus Creticis" de Bernardo de Gordonio Luke Demaitre Alberto Alonso Guardo . Los pronósticos médicos en la medicina medieval: El "Tractatus de Crisi et de Diebus Creticis" de Bernardo de Gordonio. Lingüística y Filología, no. 54. Valladolid, Spain: Universidad de Valladolid, 2003. 512 pp. $24.83, €19.50 (paperbound, 84-8448-233-2). Bernard de Gordon is be…

  • Air, miasmes et contagion: Les epidemies dans l'Antiquite et au Moyen Age (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    Sylvie Bazin-Tacchella, Danielle Quéruel, and Évelyne Samama, eds. Air, miasmes et contagion: Les épidémies dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Âge. Hommes et Textes en Champagne. Langres, France: Dominique Guéniot, 2001. 199 pp. €22.90 (paperbound, 2-87825-208-X)

  • Galen and Galenism: Theory and Medical Practice from Antiquity to the European Renaissance (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    The size and scope of the scholarly production of Luis García-Ballester (1936-2000) is documented in a seventeen-page bibliography at the end of Galen and Galenism. The eleven essays in this collection, first published between 1979 and [End Page 203] 2000 and reprinted here with their original paginations, represent a small but significant portion of his writings. The editors have arranged them as chapters, in the chronological sequence of the su…

  • La busqueda de la salud: Sanadores y enfermos en la Espana medieval (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    For more than a quarter century, students of medieval medicine have drawn inspiration as well as information from Luis García-Ballester's Historia social de la medicina en la España de los siglos XIII al XVI, vol. 1, La minoría musulmana y morisca (1976). The vigorous study and intense humanity of that pathbreaking work also grace La búsqueda de la salud, which is presented as the sequel—though, interestingly, neither as "Volume 2" nor with a cor…

  • The Art and Science of Prognostication in Early University Medicine

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    Prognosis occupied a more prominent place in the medieval curriculum than it does at the modern university. Scholastic discussions were rooted in the Hippocratic Aphorisms and shaped by Galen's treatises On Crisis and On Critical Days. Medical prediction, as an art dependent on personal skills such as memory and conjecture, was taught with the aid of the liberal arts of rhetoric and logic. Scientific predictability was sought in branches of mathe…

  • Book Notes

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke Demaitre et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2003

    The author of this book was the great-grandfather of Andreas Vesalius. His plague treatise was dedicated to "the most victorious" Francesco Sforza of Milan. It is an important source of information, particularly on five outbreaks in Brabant and Flanders between 1428 and 1454. Personal observations enliven the standard descriptions, explanations, and treatments of the epidemic. The text was, to the best of this reviewer's knowledge, never printed;…

  • Natura sit nobis semper Magistra: Über den Umgang mit Patienten, die Diät bei akuten Erkrankungen, Sterilität von Mann und Frau, Augenleiden; Vier mittelalterliche Schriften (review)

    Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

    The healing power of nature inspires the Latin treatises edited in this volume. The four texts share the theoretical constructs and practical concerns of twelfth- and thirteenth-century medicine, but they also exemplify a broad diversity of objectives and contexts. In the first, a guide for bedside conduct, the Salernitan master Archimatheus emphasizes the importance, for both physician and patient, of a trusting relationship. The instructions pe…

  • Medicine in the Renaissance City (review)

    Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2002

  • Death and Dying in the Middle Ages (review)

    Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2001

    Sweeping and simplified associations of the later Middle Ages with death, graphically reinforced by Johan Huizinga in the wake of World War I, persist in much historical discourse. Their dramatic appeal seems impervious to the accumulation and growing sophistication of studies on medieval mortality and mentalité, which are inventoried by Edelgard E. DuBruck in her introduction to this multidisciplinary collection of eighteen papers. Although most…

  • Ancients and Moderns in the Medical Sciences: From Hippocrates to Harvey (review)

    Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2001

    The twelve articles in this volume were originally published between 1978 and 1997, and most of them are readily accessible in prominent journals. The collection is more than the sum of its parts, however, because it affords a panoramic view of the author's scholarship and, more important, an appreciation of its intellectual consistency across two decades. Roger French's broader erudition and more substantial publications, on subjects ranging fro…

  • Domesticity in Middle Dutch 'Secrets of Men and Women

    Luke DemaitreARTICLESocial History of Medicine2001Cited by: 1

    This is an introductory analysis of a group of Middle Dutch texts about the 'Secrets' of female health and human procreation, which date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although at first sight little more than translations and adaptations of two Latin treatises widely known as Trotula and Secreta mulierum, the texts afford glimpses of their cultural context. They reveal a variety of traits which converge on the ordinary home, rather …

  • The Art of Medicine: Medical Teaching at the University of Paris, 1250-1400 (review)

    Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

  • Maladie et societe au Moyen Age: La lepre, les lepreux et les leproseries dans la province ecclesiastique de Sens jusqu'au milieu du XIVe siecle (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1999

    Reviewed by: Maladie et société au Moyen Age: La lèpre, les lépreux et les léproseries dans la province ecclésiastique de Sens jusqu’au milieu du XIVe siècle Luke Demaitre François-Olivier Touati. Maladie et société au Moyen Age: La lèpre, les lépreux et les léproseries dans la province ecclésiastique de Sens jusqu’au milieu du XIVe siècle. Bibliothèque du Moyen Age, no. 11. Brussels: De Boeck Université, 1998. 866 pp. BF 4,680.00; FF 780.00. The…

  • Lexique de la langue scientifique (astrologie, mathematiques, medecine…): Materiaux pour le "Dictionnaire du Moyen Francais" (DMF)-4 . Daniele Jacquart , Claude Thomasset

    Luke DemaitreARTICLEIsis1998

  • Archives de la lepre: Atlas des leproseries entre Loire et Marne au Moyen Age (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: Archives de la lèpre: Atlas des léproseries entre Loire et Marne au Moyen Age Luke Demaitre François-Olivier Touati. Archives de la lèpre: Atlas des léproseries entre Loire et Marne au Moyen Age. Mémoires et documents d’histoire médiévale et de philologie, no. 7. Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1996. 394 pp. Ill. Fr. F. 210 (paperbound). The most persistent stereotypes about medieval leprosy are being challeng…

  • The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Reviewed by: The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe Luke Demaitre Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French. The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. xv + 352 pp. Ill. $35.00. Writing a comprehensive history of a disease entails, particularly for the early centuries, the risk of misrepresenting its identity by the omission of essential details and by the application…

  • Medieval Notions of Cancer: Malignancy and Metaphor

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 4, Winter 1998

  • Leper Hospitals in Medieval Ireland: With a Short Account of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1998

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998

  • Medical Writing in Transition: Between Ars and Vulgus

    Luke DemaitreARTICLEEarly Science and Medicine1998

    The form and content of vernacular medicine, particularly in translations from Latin writings, differ both from scholastic learning and from popular lore. As a Middle High German version of Bernard de Gordon's Lilium medicine shows, the translator aimed for broader intelligibility than teachers, by elucidating terms and simplifying theories. Nevertheless, he also evinced a bookish superiority to lay people by his concern with precision and disdai…

  • Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    Reviewed by: Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions Luke Demaitre Don Bates, ed. Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xiii + 369 pp. Ill. $64.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paperbound). The papers in this volume originated in a workshop on the role of the written word in the legitimation of medical knowledge. Meant to be seminal rather than definitive, they show minimal editorial intervention. …

  • The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France Around 1200 (review)

    Luke E Demaitre, Luke DemaitreARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    Reviewed by: The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200 Luke Demaitre John W. Baldwin. The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200. The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xxviii + 331 pp. $37.50. The philosopher Guillaume de Conches wrote that sex is “natural and therefore not shameful, for it is a gift of creation. But our hypocritical varlet…