Caring for the Living Soul: Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean. Naama Cohen-Hanegbi. The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400–1500 110. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xii + 238 pp. $115.
ical order of an index while others based the index on Latin terms; the Italian way might reflect the multilingualism of medicine). These and other imperfections should not diminish the value of this work, which results from a sustained effort and the assiduous scrutiny of multiple sources studied in the original language. It offers a sheer quantity of finely analyzed material and builds a compelling interpretation of a process not only unstudied but also ignored thus far, determining the profile of medicine in the subsequent centuries in a previously unsuspected way. More than anything, this study brings to the attention of the scholarly community a young, bright scholar who might become a major authority in the history of medieval medicine and should be followed in the years to come.