Bartholomaeus of Bruges
Bartholomaeus of Bruges was a Flemish physician and natural philosopher.Life
He graduated M.A. at the University of Paris in 1307, and became a master of medicine. He came under the influence of Radulphus Brito.
Bartholomaeus served as physician to Guy I, Count of Blois until the count died. He was a reforming medical teacher, replacing the older curriculum based on the Articella by a new Galenism.Works
Bartholomaeus wrote commentaries on Aristotle. His work on the Poetics is noted for its sympathy with mimesis as a poetical function, and so an opening towards classical drama. He engaged in controversy with John of Jandun on the sensus agens, an active perceptive faculty of the soul. The reply of John of Jandun has been dated to 1310.
At the University of Montpellier he wrote also on the Ars Medicine. Some of the medical works that were attributed to him are considered to be by Bartholomew of Salerno instead. In 1348, at the time of the Black Death, he wrote on the plague.
