The Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery: To the End of the Sixteenth Century, an Address Delivered at the St. Louis Congress in 1904 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery: To the End of the Sixteenth Century, an Address Delivered at the St. Louis Congress in 1904

Secondly - or indeed it is another aspect of these reflections - the soul of the Middle Ages was a collective soul; its great works were the offspring not of individuals but of peoples. Who built the minsters, who painted the windows and the Books of Hours, who wrote the liturgies and chansons, we know not. As the churches, the liturgies, t...