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Arnau de Vilanova (also seen as Arnaldus de Villanova, circa 1238‒1311) was a Christian descended from a family that settled in Valencia immediately after its reconquest by James I of Aragon (known as the Conqueror, 1208‒76). He studied medicine in Montpellier (1260) and worked as a royal doctor in Valencia and Barcelona at the courts of Pedro III, Alfonso III, and James II of Aragon. In addition to being involved in the political and religious questions of his time, he was probably the most important physician in Europe ...