market. Among other topics, she looks at the ways in which public anatomies were used to promote the status of learned physicians, at conflicts between members of the facul- ties of law and medicine over the right of precedence in public ceremonies, and at the development of faculty statutes. In a parallel move, she examines the ways in which learned physicians and medical faculties sought to come to terms with other, non-aca- demic actors on the health market—in particular, with unlicensed healers, pharmacists, and Jewish practitioners. All in all, she draws a rich and nuanced picture of a profession that was struggling and fighting—in many respects quite successfully, in the long run, at least—to assert its status and its place within the world of learning as well as in urban society and the health market at large. This is, with minor revisions only, a PhD thesis, which Schütte successfully defended in Göttingen a couple of years ago. It was conceived within the framework of a postgrad- uate study program that focused on “cultures of expertise” from the twelfth to the six- teenth century and clearly was inspired and enriched by this context. As is typical and befitting for a PhD thesis, certainly in the German tradition, it presents, on almost five hundred pages, an impressive wealth of research literature on many aspects of the history of the late medieval faculty and the medical profession in this period, as well as on the- oretical issues like the nature of expertise and professional self-representation in general. This comes at a certain price, however. Schütte’s own results sometimes risk being bur- ied in her summaries and discussions of the work of others. Readers who are primarily interested in original research are likely to wish, at times, that the author had had the courage to undertake some very serious cutting when turning her thesis into a book and to focus more on her own analysis of primary sources—such as faculty proceedings, which prove very enlightening, especially for Vienna. With that said, however, Schütte’s extensive presentation and discussion of the state of the art will be of great service to those readers looking for a competent and up-to-date survey, especially of the rich German-language historical scholarship on the topics she approaches in her book. Michael Stolberg, Universität Würzburg doi:10.1017/rqx.2018.43 Formes du savoir médical à la Renaissance. Violaine Giacomotto-Charra and Jacqueline Vons, eds. Pessac: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine, 2017. 304 pp. €23. Centered on the history of medicine and dietetics, this volume examines the types of medical knowledge in the Renaissance, in particular their disciplinary and textual forms. At that time, medical treatises were dedicated to diverse theoretical and practical branches, shaped by various editorial, rhetorical, and institutional strategies. The broad palette of their discursive practices is explored in the first part of the volume, REVIEWS 287