Michael R. McVaugh
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Professor Emeritus |
Research Interests
Michael McVaugh studies the history of medicine and science from the Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. Much of his published research has concerned the growth of medical learning within a university setting in the Middle Ages, particularly the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the concomitant medicalization of European life. This latter theme in particular was developed in his 1993 book, Medicine before the Plague: Doctors and Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285-1335 (Cambridge University Press). Since 1975 he has been a general editor of the collected Latin writings of one of the most famous of medieval physicians, Arnau de Vilanova (d. 1311); the international series is more than half complete. He has also explored medieval surgery and its place in the world of medieval learning; he edited the last great surgical treatise of the Middle Ages, the Inventarium or Chirurgia magna of Guy de Chauliac (Brill, 1997), and published The Rational Surgery of the Middle Ages, a general account of the development of medieval surgery, in 2006. At the moment his research is focused on the process of translation of medical literature in the Middle Ages: between Arabic and Latin, Hebrew and Latin, and Latin and the European vernaculars.
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
mcvaugh@email.unc.edu