Learning Medieval Medicine: The Boundaries of University Teaching. Introduction O'Boyle, Cornelius Taken together, these essays reveal that university medicine, while generated and sustained within specific institutional structures, manifested itself in various forms well beyond the confines of the university. In doing so, it dictated the nature of medical learning at all levels of society. It determined where it could be taught (in local schools and even in the home), to whom (by and large men, and not women), and what sort of medical learning was appropriate (e.g. cosmetics for laywomen). University medicine thus penetrated all levels of society, yet it remained firmly in the control of male university-educated physicians. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that the boundaries of university medicine were certainly flexible and invariably shifting; but they were always the product of negotiation between the parties involved, most notably the master and his student, and the physician and his patient. 2022-12-19T07:23:53Z 2022-12-19T07:23:53Z 2000 journal article O’Boyle, Cornelius. «Learning medieval medicine : the boundaries of university teaching. Introduction». Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 2000, Vol. 20, p. 17-29, https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/86627. 0211-9536 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78537 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Universidad de Granada