The Medievalists.net Monthly Book Selection for September is The Doctors’ Dinner Party, by Ibn Butlan, translated by Philip F. Kennedy and Jeremy Farrell.
The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Buṭlān, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Buṭlān’s own deep technical knowledge of medical practice, including surgery, blood-letting, and medicines.
If you want a physical copy, then sign up to the Medievalists.net Monthly Book Selection tier ($45 US) before the end of September and we will have the publisher send you a copy. Click here to join our Patreon.
The Medievalists.net Monthly Book Selection for September is The Doctors’ Dinner Party, by Ibn Butlan, translated by Philip F. Kennedy and Jeremy Farrell.
The Doctors’ Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Buṭlān, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Buṭlān’s own deep technical knowledge of medical practice, including surgery, blood-letting, and medicines.
If you want a physical copy, then sign up to the Medievalists.net Monthly Book Selection tier ($45 US) before the end of September and we will have the publisher send you a copy. Click here to join our Patreon.
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