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Of all the material objects that contributed to the world of medicine and medical care in the Middle Ages, those surviving in largest quantities today are the books that embodied medical knowledge. But even these are orphans, bereft of the contexts in which they circulated alongside other books. In these presentations, we will reconstruct the intellectual worlds of three European physicians between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. By placing physical books in Harvard’s collections alongside their digital avatars held at other libraries around the world, we can begin to see how the intellectual cultures of medicine in medieval Europe expanded and interconnected, moving across boundaries of time, language, and religious culture.