Gui de Chauliac et sa Grande Chirurgie, ed. Béatrice Bakhouche, Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore, and Daniel Le Blévec. De Diversis artibus, Collection de travaux de l’Académie internationale d’histoire des sciences 111 (n.s. 74). Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, 254 pp., 24 colored ill.

In 2020, the city of Montpellier celebrated the 800th anniversary of the local foundation of the first formal school of medical education in Europe. Tied to this celebration was an effort to celebrate members of the school’s illustrious faculty, notably Gui de Chauliac (circa 1300‒1368), whose Chirurgia magna or Grande Chirurgie (1363) is a foundational document for the history of medicine. The work was widely diffused, translated into multiple languages, and reprinted numerous times.