Nancy G. Siraisi is one of the preeminent scholars of medieval and Renaissance intellectual history. Now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a 2008 winner of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, her books include The Clock and the Mirror (1997), and the widely used textbook Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine (1990), which won the Davis Prize from the History of Science Society. In 2004 she received the Renaissance Society of America's Paul Oskar Kristellar Award, and in 2005 she received the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction.
"A fascinating study of Renaissance physicians as avid readers and
enthusiastic writers of all kinds of history: from case narratives
and medical biographies to archaeological and environmental
histories. In this wide-ranging book, Nancy Siraisi demonstrates
the deep links between the medical and the humanistic disciplines
in early modern Europe."
--Katharine Park, Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History
of Science, Harvard University
"Historians of medicine and of historiography alike will read her
book with pleasure and profit."
--Brian W. Ogilvie, Renaissance Quarterly
"This is a salient but little explored aspect of renaissance
humanism, and there is no doubt that Siraisi has succeeded in
throwing light onto a vast subject. This is a major book, well
written, richly learned and with further implications for more than
students of medical history."
--Vivian Nutton, Professor, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the
History of Medicine, University College London
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