The "Saturday Night Live" sketch Medieval ... the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe," that a major innovation of that time was the creative synthesis of Christian orthodoxy with ...
Medical ideas in the medieval era were heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and Romans, particularly Hippocrates and Galen. Although Galen had not been a Christian, he was accepted by the ...
Although Galen was not a Christian he was accepted ... needed knowledge of astrology as well as medicine to treat patients. According to the medieval chart of Zodiac Man, each part of the body ...