Part I. Chapter 1 Medicine in Some Thirteenth-Century Biblical Commentaries, with a Flashback on Augustine's De genesis ad litteram (Jacquart).- Chapter 2 In a Montpellier Classroom (McVaugh).- Part II. Chapter 3 Medicine as Queen: The Consilia of Bartolomeo da Montagnana (Crisciani).- Chapter 4 John Caius, Historian (Nutton).- Chapter 5 A Medical Man among Ecclesiastical Historians: John Caius, Matthew Parker and the History of Cambridge University (Grafton).- Chapter 6 A Medical Collection Anatomized: The Catalogus bibliothecae Hieremiae Martii (1572) (Maclean).- Part III. Chapter 7 The Death of a Naturalist: Knowledge and Community in Late Renaissance Italy (Findlen).- Chapter 8 The Dedication Strategies of Conrad Gessner (Blair).- Chapter 9 Imagination, Maternal Desire and Embryology in Thomas Fienus (Hirai).- Chapter 10 Gerardus Blasius and the Illustrated Amsterdam Observationes from Nicolaas Tulp to Frederik Ruysch (Bertoloni Meli).