Katharine Park

Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348.

Originally published in 1985.

Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At the same time, Italian...

Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world....