Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the Oldest Manuscript of His'pantegni' by Erik Kwakkel, Francis Newton
Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the Oldest Manuscript of His'pantegni'
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Erik Kwakkel, Francis Newton
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Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the Oldest Manuscript of His'pantegni'

Speculum Sanitatis

Erik Kwakkel, Francis Newton

255 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history
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Fleeing his North-African homeland for Italy, Constantine the African joined the abbey of Monte Cassino south of Rome in c. 1077. He then dedicated his life to the translation of at least two dozen medical texts from Arabic into Latin. These great...

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