Science mdivale d'Espagne et d'Alentour

The articles in this volume provide a profound contribution to our knowledge of the scientific and intellectual context of the great voyages of discovery in the 15th century, and illustrate the particularities of the development of science and medicine in medieval Spain - for example at the medical school of Guadalupe. These particularities Guy Beaujouan would attribute in large measure to certain specific features of Spanish history: the important Muslim and Jewish presence, the relative weakness of the universities, and the early strength of the vernacular language. The volume opens with two surveys of science in the peninsula, and closes with a detailed analysis of the remarkable works of one 'Philippe Elphant' (perhaps actually a Scot, the author suggests). In between come a series of studies on the manuscript sources, fundamental research which has done much to open the field to others. Particular attention is given to the library established by Ferdinand Columbus, the son of Christopher, and to the relations between scientific learning and the arts of astronomy and navigation, notably as practised in Portugal. Les articles contenus dans ce volume sont dun apport incontestable nos connaissances du contexte scientifique et intellectuel des Grandes Dcouvertes au 15 sicle. Ils illustrent aussi les particularits du dveloppement de la science et de la mdecine mdivales espagnoles, par exemple, lcole mdicale de Guadalupe. Guy Beaujouan tend attribuer ces particularits certaines caractristiques spcifiques de lhistoire espagnole: limportante prsence juive et musulmane, la dbilit relative des universits et une maturit prcoce des langues vernaculaires. Le volume souvre sur deux valuations de la science dans la pninsule et se termine sur lanalyse dtaille des travaux exceptionnels dun certain Philippe Elphant (selon lauteur il sagirait peut-tre dun Ecossais dorigine).