Research interests: European intellectual history; History of pre-modern science and medicine with particular reference to 12th-15th-century Latin European culture; Religion and medicine; Latin Physiognomy 1200-1500.
Contact
email: zieglerj@research.haifa.ac.il
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Office phone:04-8240673
Personal Website: https://haifa.academia.edu/JosephZiegler
Select Publications
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Medicine and religion c. 1300: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
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"Philosophers and Physicians on the Scientific Validity of Latin Physiognomy, 1200-1500", Early Science and Medicine 12 (2007), 285-312.
"The Biology of the Virtues in Medieval and Early Renaissance Theology and Physiognomy", in Im Korsett der Tugenden: Moral und Geschlecht im kulturhistorischen Kontext, ed. A. Bettels and M. Gadebusch Bondio (Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms, 2013), pp. 3-23.
"Bodies, Diseases, and the Preservation of Health as Foci of Inter-Religious Encounters in the Middle Ages", in Médecine et religion: Compétitions, collaborations, conflits (XII-XX siècles), ed. L. Berlivet et al. (Rome: École française de Rome, 2013), pp. 43-63.
ed. with Peter Billier, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages (York: York Medieval Press, 2001).