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Doctorum Ecclesiae: the medical clerics of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, England

Adam S. Komorowski Sang Ik Song Limerick, Ireland   It is difficult to remember that in medieval and early modern Europe the church was often the locus of medical practice and that medicine and religion had a symbiotic co-existence.1 Many of the early Christian Church Fathers, some given the title Doctors of the Church, saw their […]