Michael Mcvaugh

Biographic Data

ID983829
NAMEMichael Mcvaugh
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEMcvaugh
SIGNATUREMCVAUGH M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Avenzoar’s liber teisir and its latin translations

    Michael McvaughARTICLEArchives d histoire doctrinale et…2026

    Cet article distingue deux traductions médiévales du Liber Teisir d’Avenzoar. L’une, bien connue, fut réalisée à partir d’une version hébraïque ; achevée à Padoue en 1281, c’est celle qui sera imprimée à la Renaissance. L’autre, qui n’est conservée que dans des manuscrits, a été préparée à Rome deux décennies plus tard à la cour de Clément V par le traducteur des œuvres médicales de Maïmonide, Giovanni da Capua. L’article suggère que Guglielmo da…

  • Twelfth-Century Latin Medicine in Hebrew Garb

    Gad Freudenthal, Michael Mcvaugh et al.ARTICLEMedieval Encounters2020Cited by: 1

    In 1197–1199 an anonymous scholar completed the translation of twenty-four medical works from Latin into Hebrew, which he listed in a Preface he wrote to the entire corpus. Some seventeen of these translations are extant. The translator describes himself as a Jew who took baptism but subsequently repented. His self-image as an apostate is reflected in his referring to himself as “Doeg the Edomite,” an appellation we also use. Doeg’s motivation to…

  • Determining a Drug's Properties

    Michael McvaughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2017

    Among Galenic texts attracting attention circa 1300 was De complexionibus, which described a crude protocol for determining the qualitative character and intensity of any given medicine. This caught the attention of physicians at Montpellier, where three generations of writers made it into a carefully structured test procedure for identifying by a via experimenti the nature of a drug's effect on healthful function: they introduced a null point as…

  • When Universities First Encountered Surgery

    Michael McvaughARTICLEJournal of the History of…2017

    From student notes of the teaching of William de Congenis, at Montpellier ca. 1225, we can recognize that surgical education fitted not too uneasily into an academic environment at that moment, when universities and medical faculties were beginning to shape their institutional identity. But medical institutionalization over the next two hundred years operated in a variety of ways to strengthen rather than break down a nascent hierarchical distinc…

  • Arnau de Vilanova at the summit of Oloron (1287)

    Theo H M Falke, Michael Mcvaugh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medieval History2016

    In July 1287, during mediation by Edward I for the release of Charles, prince of Salerno, the kings of England and Aragon met with Charles' representatives at a large assembly at Oloron in Béarn, on the edge of the Pyrenees west of Bayonne. An English document deriving from this meeting reveals the presence there of the famous physician Arnau de Vilanova, a member of the Aragonese party, and recipient of a gift from the king of England. This arti…

  • Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R Mcvaugh et al.ARTICLESpeculum2011

    With the passing in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 16, 2010, of John Emery Murdoch, a Fellow of the Medieval Academy since 1992, medieval studies lost a particularly penetrating and lucid student of Scholastic mathematics and philosophy

  • The "Experience-Based Medicine" of the Thirteenth Century

    Michael McvaughARTICLEEarly Science and Medicine2009Cited by: 2

    We should not assume that medieval physicians did not take pains to found their practice upon evidence. Academic physicians at Montpellier ca. 1300 were cautious about accepting textbook claims for the powers of drugs, and tried to verify each drug's physiological effects before using it; yet they were also flexible, ready to believe that powerful new medicines might be discovered empirically that were unknown to their authorities or superficiall…

  • Richard Wiseman and the Medical Practitioners of Restoration London

    Michael McvaughARTICLEJournal of the History of…2007

    The case histories used to illustrate Richard Wiseman's Several Chirurgicall Treatises (1676) reveal not only pathological and therapeutic detail but much information about the range of occupational relationships between Wiseman and the many London physicians with whom he collaborated on cases (more than forty are identified in an appendix to this article). His interaction with the two physicians with whom he had most to do, Francis Prujean and W…

  • Niccolò da Reggio's Translations of Galen and their Reception in France

    Michael McvaughARTICLEEarly Science and Medicine2006Cited by: 1

    In the first half of the fourteenth century, Niccolò da Reggio translated more than fifty works by Galen from Greek into Latin, and by mid-century most if not all of them had reached the papal court at Avignon, where Guy de Chauliac praised their accuracy and cited them regularly in his Great Surgery of 1363. Yet contemporary physicians at nearby Montpellier almost never referred to them, ordinarily preferring to quote from the older Arabic-Latin…

  • Los pronósticos médicos en la medicina medieval

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R McvaughARTICLESpeculum2005

  • La Sedacina ou l'œuvre au crible

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R McvaughARTICLESpeculum2005

  • Le corps a l'epreuve

    Michael Mcvaugh, M R McVaughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    Franck Collard and Évelyne Samama, eds. Le corps à l'épreuve: Poisons, remèdes et chirurgie: Aspects des pratiques médicales dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge. Hommes et Textes en Champagne. Symposia, UFR des Lettres et Sciences humaines de l'Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Troyes, May 1999; Reims, December 1999. Langres, France: Dominique Guéniot, 2002. 191 pp. €22.90 (paperbound, 2-87825-233-0)

  • The Black Death Transformed

    Michael Mcvaugh, M R McVaughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2004

    The Black Death Transformed has enjoyed considerable publicity—not surprising, perhaps, in an age where the threat of epidemic disease is so newsworthy. Nor has its author, Samuel Cohn, been modest about his claims. He contends that for a century and more historians have rushed to equate the magna mortalitas that first struck Europe in 1348 with bubonic plague, but have failed to consider the evidence carefully enough. All other historians have m…

  • The Lost Latin Galen

    Open AccessMichael McvaughARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2002

    Journal Article THE LOST LATIN GALEN Get access MICHAEL McVAUGH MICHAEL McVAUGH University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 45, Issue Supplement_77, January 2002, Pages 153–162, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2002.tb02287.x Published: 22 February 2011

  • Medicine in the English Middle Ages . Faye Getz

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R McvaughARTICLESpeculum2002

  • Tabula Antidotarii“ of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew Translation

    Lola Ferre, Michael McvaughBOOKTabula Antidotarii of Armengaud…2000

    Armengaud Blaise or Blaise (d. 1312), a nephew of the celebrated medieval medical & theological figure Arnau de Vilanova (d.1311), is becoming better known, thanks in large part to the documentation preserved in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon. Armengaud became a practicing physician and went to Barcelona at the end of 1303 to serve the king & queen, & later became physician to Pope Clement V at Avignon. He helped turn Latin into at least five…

  • "The "Tabula Antidotarii

    Michael Mcvaugh, Lola FerreARTICLETransactions of the American…2000

    Michael McVaugh, Lola Ferre, The "Tabula Antidotarii": Of Armengaud Blaise and Its Hebrew Translation, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 90, No. 6 (2000), pp. i-xii+1-218

  • Higiena wedłe Tomasza z Wrocławia . Thomas of Wrocław , Jerzy Burchardt

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R McvaughARTICLESpeculum2000

  • Charity and Welfare

    Michael Mcvaugh, M R McVaughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1999

    Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 4, Winter 1999

  • Bedside Manners in the Middle Ages

    Michael Mcvaugh, M R McVaughARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    “Bedside Manners in the Middle Ages” Michael R. McVaugh (bio) The title of this paper is a deliberate echo of another one, the title of an article published just fifty years ago by Henry Sigerist in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Northwestern University Medical School. There Sigerist translated and discussed a short Latin text, attributed to the late-thirteenth-century physician Arnald of Villanova, that set out some of the ways in which physician…

  • Expositio Super Capitulum de Generatione Embrionis Canonis Avicennae cum Quibusdam Quaestionibus. Mondinus de Leuciis , Romana Martorelli Vico

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R McvaughARTICLESpeculum1996

  • Historia naturalis. Johannis Aegidii Zamorensis , Avelino Dominguez Garcia , Luis Garcia Ballester

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R McvaughARTICLEIsis1996

  • Avicenna Latinus

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R McvaughARTICLEIsis1996

  • The Beginnings of Western Science

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R Mcvaugh et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

  • Practica medicinalis

    Michael Mcvaugh, Michael R McvaughARTICLEIsis1991