Sarah R. Kyle is an associate professor of Humanities at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA
`The study draws on textual and artistic sources, humanist and antique writings by men of letters (mostly Petrarch) and by physicians, providing a fine compendium of original sources for the topics discussed... Kyle's study provides a novel insight into understanding the Carrara Herbal 's genesis from the ideologies of court culture and medicine as well as its status within them. In particular, it generates perspectives for a better understanding of similar health book commissions, to name only the Tacuina sanitatis, created for the rival court of the Visconti dynasty at Milan. It will therefore find readers among those interested in art history and history of the book as well as in the history of sciences and medicine' - Renaissance Quarterly (Volume LXXI, No. 3) `With respect to the topic relating medicine to Humanism, the relevant sections - the bulk of the book - are erudite, carefully referenced and are an important addition to studies of Humanism in late Medieval Italy' - Garden History (45:2). `Kyle's extensive exploration starts from the Carrara Herbal as an object, and her investigation of its various contexts makes her cross and recross the boundaries between art history, the study of humanism, and the history of medicine ... The erudition that underpins this study is massive, and ranges widely in terms of subjects as well as a long way back in history' - Nuncius (33; 2018). `Sarah Kyle's Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal is the delightful and useful first book of a young scholar... Kyle is an art historian at the University of Central Oklahoma with a penchant for interdisciplinarity. She is at her best writing about art history, something that she does with remarkable clarity in beautiful prose. She is equally remarkable at tackling medical history subjects... Overall, Kyle has managed to produce a good first book, which will be useful to American undergraduates, and will delight more experienced researchers with its interdisciplinary flair' - British Journal for the History of Science (51:1; 2018).