Curriculum Vitae
Education
AB Harvard College, 1960
PhD Princeton University, 1965
Research Interests
Professor McVaugh’s research focuses on the growth of medical and surgical learning in the Middle Ages, particularly as shaped by the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century universities, and on the concomitant medicalization of European life. 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), a series now nearly complete. Most recently he has been engaged in a series of studies investigating aspects of the process of translation of medical literature in the Middle Ages: translations between Arabic and Latin, between Hebrew and Latin, and between Latin and the European vernaculars.
Some Notable Publications
- “Hippocrates at Montpellier,” in Sicut dicit: Editing Ancient and Medieval Commentaries on Authoritative Texts, ed. Shari Boodts, Pieter De Leemans, and Stefan Schorn (Turnhout: Brepols, 2019), 47-67.
- “Academic Medicine and the Vernacularization of Medieval Surgery: The Case of Bernat de Berriac,” in El saber i les llengües vernacles a l’època de Llull i Eximenis, ed. Anna Alberni, Lola Badia, Lluís Cifuentes, and Alexander Fidora (Barcelona: Abadia de Montserrat, 2012), 257–81
- The Rational Surgery of the Middle Ages (SISMEL, 2006)
- Medicine before the Plague: Doctors and Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1335 (Cambridge University Press, 1993, reprint 2002)
- Arnaldi de Villanova Opera Medica Omnia (University of Barcelona, 1975–present)