Images of Plague and Pestilence: Iconography and Iconology. Christine M. Boeckl
constantly defined in the course of the study and leads to clear results, explicitly summarized at each step of the exposition and progressively accumulated. Overall, though somewhat prolix (they are dissertations), Perez Ibanez's and Blanco Perez's works constitute a sort of introduction to the reading of the Renaissance medical works written in the universities of Salamanca and Valladoiid, respectively. As such, they open the door to a wide range of future research from Renaissance medical lexicon and language to university medical teaching and publishing, for example, also allowing comparative research between individuals, places, and countries. ALAIN TOUWAIDE Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History