Fernando Serrano-LarráyozUniversity of Alcalá | UAH · Department of Surgery, Medical and Social Sciences
Fernando Serrano-Larráyoz
Professor of History of Science
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Introduction
Professor of History of Science (Medicine and Medical Antropology) at the University of Alcala (Alcalá de Henares, Spain). I received my PhD in Medieval History at the Public University of Navarre (2001) with the thesis entitled: “La mesa del Rey. Cocina y régimen alimentario en la Corte de Carlos III ‘el Noble’ de Navarra (1411-1425)” (Pamplona, 2002). My research focuses mainly on food and medicine during the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (fernando.serranol@uah.es)
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July 2019 - January 2021
University of Alcalá
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- Professor (Full)
October 2010 - present
Universidad de Alcalá
October 2010 - September 2015
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During the central period of the Middle Ages, medical practice, based on the Christian tradition of beneficence, was an important dimension of the activity of monasteries and hospitals organized by the ecclesiastical and secular elites. It is also important to mention the growing relevance of religious brotherhoods, parish organisations and lay ass...
The aim of this article is to present and analyse four dietary
prescriptions from the 16th century prepared for Juan Rena, a cleric of Venetian
origin, and his servant Juan de Alarcón, which are kept at the Archivo General
de Navarra. These documents demonstrate the interest of the patients and
physicians in dietetics, understood as a group of heal...
This work is an approach to the life and socioeconomic context of Juan Moliner (doctor of kings Carlos II and Carlos III of Navarre), based on the study of his testament. The document provides enlightening information about this figure, quite unknown despite being one of the most important Christian doctors at the service of Carlos III ‘El Noble’....
This article is an appraisal of the trade of apothecary in the kingdom of Navarre during the 14th and 15th centuries. Firstly the article brings us up to date on the health network of Navarre during this period. It then looks at the most singular features of this trade, such as the high diversifi cation of tasks undertaken, which focused not only o...
Juan Rena fue un clérigo veneciano que acaparó una gran cantidad de cargos y prebendas gracias al servicio prestado al emperador Carlos V. Participó en conflictos y negociaciones de gran relieve político y viajó constantemente. Además, destacó por sus actividades mercantiles y financieras, pero también por la reorganización administrativa del reino...
This study is of the text called 'Opúsculo de cozinas'. It was written by a French doctor, residing in Vitoria (northern Spain), and previously the doctor of the Duke of Brittany, at the request of the Duke of Alba. The treatise may be dated to about 1486-1487 and it is related to the illness of the duke, García Álvarez de Toledo, from which he die...
El presente estudio recoge el texto llamado 'Opúsculo de cozinas' escrito por un médico francés, afincado en Vitoria (norte de España) y anteriormente médico del duque de Bretaña, a petición del duque de Alba. El tratado puede ser datado hacia 1486-1487 y está relacionado con la enfermedad del duque García Álvarez de Toledo, de la que murió en 1488...
The interest in the practice of popular healers in Navarra during pre-industrial time is merely anecdotal. This study looks at the case of the French empiricist Juan Flor, based on court records preserved in the Archivo Real y General de Navarra. Special attention is given to his hectic biography, his healing practice, the doctor-patient relationsh...
At the trial of Jacques de Rue, the chamberlain of King Charles II of Navarre, after he was arrested in France (March 1378), we learn that the doctor Ángel de Costafort was implicated in several of the king of Navarre’s plans to poison people. The credibility of the testimonies given in this trial is questionable due to the use, or not, of torture,...
https://utorontopress.com/9781487540524/the-gastronomical-arts-in-spain/
Around 1381 Estéfano, a physician in the service of the archbishop of Seville Pedro de Toledo (often identified as Pedro Gómez Barroso), wrote a treatise entitled "Libro de visitaçione e conssiliaçione medicarum". This work studies the third “consiliatorio” of the first part of the book, which is actually a regimen sanitatis, dealing with the appro...
Relación de graduados en Medicina por la Universidad de Irache procedentes de las comarcas de Daroca y Jiloca durante los siglos XVII-XVIII.
This work analyses several Castilian, Catalan and Navarrese medical advices written in vernacular language (Castilian and Catalan) during the period between the 15th and late 16th centuries. These documents prove the interest of both doctors and patients in dietetics as a set of hygiene and health measures based on galenic res naturales and res non...
La evolución histórica de la Universidad benedictina de Irache queda todavía por trazar. De hecho su tratamiento historiográfico es ciertamente irregular. Así, frente a trabajos rigurosos que inciden principalmente en sus orígenes, existen vacíos hasta hoy dificilmente explicables. Uno de ellos, quizás de los más importantes, es el análisis de aque...
El manuscrito conservado en la Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid) con signatura 2/Ms. 46, ff. 123r-130v, que responde al título de 'Reçeptas que fizo el doctor Gómez para el muy alto e muy esclareçido rey don Enrrique el quarto, nuestro sennor', es un texto que no ha sido debidamente estudiado desde el punto de vista de la transmisión de las rec...
Este estudio busca completar, a través del manuscrito 2/Ms. 46 (ff. 123r-130v) de la Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid), el conocimiento de las enfermedades que pudieron aquejar al rey Enrique IV de Castilla. ¿Hasta qué punto los diagnósticos que se han hecho sobre el monarca tienen fiabilidad? ¿Las crónicas son objetivas cuando tratan de sus en...
Han sido varios los estudios que, en mayor o menor medida, han tenido como objeto le evolución de la Universidad de Irache desde los siglos XVI al XIX. Universidad, de las consideradas menores, que solo impartió docencia en Artes y Teología pero que también otorgó grados en otras facultades, como Cánones, Leyes y Medicina. No existe hasta el moment...
La Universidad de Alcalá fue la sede del XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas (SEHCYT) los días 21 a 23 de junio de 2017. Al llamamiento acudieron historiadores de las técnicas y de las ciencias, nacionales e internacionales, venidos, incluso, del continente americano. Durante estos tres días, muy calu...
En este trabajo se analizan los documentos conocidos como 'Recetario de Alba', que comprende la relación de medicamentos expedidos a la Casa de Alba entre los años 1469 y 1470. Dicho análisis ha servido no solo para conocer qué medicinas se usaban en el ámbito de las élites castellanas durante ese periodo, sino también para introducirnos en la prác...
Hace aproximadamente cuatro lustros Luis García Ballester advirtió de unos textos que recogían algunos consejos médicos para el primer duque de Alba, García Álvarez de Toledo. Textos fechados en torno a 1486 y 1487 –poco antes de su muerte– y redactados por el licenciado Antonio, médico del duque de Bretaña, y durante un tiempo, “del muy yllustre e...
The present article presents a contrastive analysis of late medieval medical recipes in English and Castilian in order to find out analogies and differences in both languages. To this end, a corpus of medical recipes dating from the 14th and 15th centuries in English and a parallel one in Castilian have been compiled so that recipes can be compared...
La SEHCYT y la UAH, un encuentro después de cuarenta años
El 30 de octubre de 1974 se celebró la Reunión Constituyente de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias (SEHC) y se redactaron y aprobaron sus primeros Estatutos. Poco después se solicitó su admisión en el Registro de Asociaciones del Ministerio de Gobernación, lo que no se logró h...
http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2469-09612016000100005&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es
La figura y la contribución al ámbito de la Medicina del boticario y también médico navarro Matías de Beinza no resultan desconocidas. No obstante, las referencias que hasta el momento se han ido transmitiendo sobre su persona no van mucho más allá de lo que el propio Beinza escribió sobre sí mismo en su obra `Discurso sobre los polvos universales...
This work analyses and transcribes a health regime or consilium made for Cardinal Rodrigo de Castro, dated by the end of 16th century and preserved in the National Library of Spain (Madrid). It serves as an example of how physicians were interested in texts whose purpose was the treatment of individual pathologies, not only in order to cure patient...
http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/issue/view/23454/showToc
This study presents two prescriptions made by the treasurer of Navarre Juan Vallés, dated between 1528 and 1551. There have been attempts to link these writings to the lost work by Juan Vallés Flores de cirurgía y medicina and to whom it was supposedly aimed at, Juan Rena or Juan de Alarcón.
Diverse cryptographic material has come to light during the recent rearrangement, carried out by the
General Archive of Navarre, of several documents coming from the personal archive of Venetian
clergyman Juan Rena (ca.1480-1359). Rena was the right-hand man of Ferdinand II of Aragon, called the Catholic, and Charles V, during the administrative re...
http://www.pamiela.com/es/ensayo/universitas/lexico-medico-y-farmacologico-en-lengua-vulgar-y-latina-de-la-documentacion-cortesana-navarra-siglos-xiv-xv-detail
Diccionario Biográfico Español, XLIX, Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, 2013, pp. 99-101
EL Método Curativo deL CóLera-Morbo DE MARTÍN FRANCISCO VISCARRET (1809-1855), ABAD DE OLAGüE (NAVARRA) Método curativo del cólera-morbo by Martín Francisco Resumen En el presente estudio se pretende dar a conocer y comprobar la originalidad de un remedio curativo redactado por Martín Francisco Viscarret, abad de Olagüe (Navarra), a mediados del si...
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Does the 'black rose' have any alchemical or poisonous significance? It is the signature of a physicist in the service of Carlos II of Navarra that the French chronicles relate to various poisoning attempts. The rose also appears on his heraldic shield.
The name appears in a Castilian text from the late 15th century.
Thank you very much.
Is it possible that someone can send me a pdf of the following bibliographic reference? Due to the alarm situation I am not getting a copy anywhere. The reference is: Burnett, Charles (2009): "Master Theodore, Frederick II's philosopher: Addenda and corrigenda". In: Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages. The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context. London: Routedgle, pp.????
I'll be very greatful.
Best regards
I am studying a cooking text written around 1486-87, by a French physician named 'licenciado Antonio' (de Turnay), former physician of the Duke of Brittany. The text is written for the Duke of Alba
I am looking for bibliographic information about Agostino Centurione Pietrasanta, rector of the Genova Medical College between 1509 and 1511, if I have not been wrong. I only know the work of P. Lorenzo Isnardi, "Storia della Università di Genova" (1861), where Pietrasanta is cited on page 133. If someone could help me I would be very grateful.
Thank you very much and best regards.
Fernando Serrano-Larráyoz
