Bartholomaeus of Bruges explained

Bartholomaeus of Bruges (Barthélemy de Bruges) (died 1356) was a Flemish physician and natural philosopher.

Life

He graduated M.A. at the University of Paris in 1307, and became a master of medicine. He came under the influence of Radulphus Brito.^[1]

Bartholomaeus served as physician to Guy I, Count of Blois until the count died.^[2] He was a reforming medical teacher, replacing the older curriculum based on the Articella by a new Galenism.^[3]

Works

Bartholomaeus wrote commentaries on Aristotle.^{[4] [5]} His work on the Poetics is noted for its sympathy with mimesis as a poetical function, and so an opening towards classical drama^[6] (the original work of Aristotle not being available at the time in Western Europe, the basis was a Latin translation by Hermannus Alemannus from Averroes, the Commentaria Media).^[7] He engaged in controversy with John of Jandun on the sensus agens, an active perceptive faculty of the soul.^[8] The reply of John of Jandun has been dated to 1310.^[9]

At the University of Montpellier he wrote also on the Ars Medicine.^[10] Some of the medical works that were attributed to him are considered to be by Bartholomew of Salerno instead.^[11] In 1348, at the time of the Black Death, he wrote on the plague.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Benoît Patar. Dictionnaire des Philosophes Médiévaux. 3 August 2012. 2006. Les Editions Fides. 978-2-7621-2741-6. 95–6. fr.
2. Book: Alfonso Maierù. Alfonso Maierù - Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Studi sul XIV secolo in memoria di Anneliese Maier. 3 August 2012. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. 418. GGKEY:L405NCPNGP7.
3. Book: Luis Garcia-Ballester. Roger French. Jon Arrizabalaga. Andrew Cunningham. Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death. 3 August 2012. 16 December 1993. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-43101-9. 50.
4. Book: Thomas F. Glick. Steven J. Livesey. Faith Wallis. Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia. 3 August 2012. 29 September 2005. Psychology Press. 978-0-415-96930-7. 76.
5. Web site: colorado.edu/philosophy/provisionalia, Bartholomew of Bruges. . 2012-08-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121013060542/http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/provisionalia/#bobr . 2012-10-13 . dead .
6. Book: Donnalee Dox. The Idea of the Theater in Latin Christian Thought: Augustine to the Fourteenth Century. 3 August 2012. 5 August 2004. University of Michigan Press. 978-0-472-11423-8. 116–7.
7. Book: Perrine Galand-Hallyn. Fernand Hallyn. Terence Cave. Poétiques de la Renaissance. 3 August 2012. 2001. Librairie Droz. 978-2-600-00474-9. 49–. fr.
8. Book: Simo Knuuttila. Pekka Kärkkäinen. Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. 3 August 2012. 20 March 2008. Springer. 978-1-4020-6124-0. 215.
9. Book: A. Pattin. Pour l'histoire du sens agent: La controverse entre Barthélemy de Bruges et Jean de Jandun. Ses antécédents et son évolution. Etudes de textes inédits. 3 August 2012. 1 January 1988. Leuven University Press. 978-90-6186-263-5. 32.
10. Book: Cornelius O'Boyle. The Art of Medicine: Medical Teaching at the University of Paris, 1250-1400. 3 August 2012. 1998. BRILL. 978-90-04-11124-0. 200.
11. Book: Ernest Wickersheimer. Danielle Jacquart. Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au Moyen âge. 3 August 2012. 1979. Librairie Droz. 978-2-600-03384-8. 38. fr.