Master Claretus’ Early Didactic Writings on Medicine
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | CASALC Review |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Claretus; Latin literature; Medieval Literature; Middle Ages; Medicine; regimen sanitatis; Didactic Poem |
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| Description | Claretus (Bartholomaeus de Solentia) is known as the author of the oldest Latin-Czech dictionaries. His lexicography works and his importance for the Czech and Slavic lexicography overshadow his other writings including also two Latin didactic poems from the field of medicine: Medicaminarius, which focuses on recomendations and instructions how to stay healthy, remedies and medical treatment, and Complexionarius (which describes the four human complexiones (temperaments). In the present article both of the texts are introduced as examples of medieval handbooks and some of their structural aspects are pointed out. Although quite a number of similar school texts were created during the Middle Ages, not many of them originated in the Czech lands. They provide an insight into medical theory as it was taught in Bohemia in the mid 14th century. |