Good historical works on medieval educational methods?

[davidjackson]

What makes this pertinent to the VMS is that medicine appears to be one of the major topics that the VMS might cover, and that a student who composed it might have been learning.

Entirely possible. But it wouldn't have been a physician that wrote it. It is missing most of the medieval tropes that would have been required for a physician. Remember that the main role for a physician in those days was to balance out the humours of the body; almost everything "wrong" could be attributed to an "imbalance" of one kind or another. These sort of professionals wouldn't have dirtied their hands with herbs.

You had barbers who doubled up as surgeons and did the nitty gritty of actually poking around in the human body; and the pharmacist / herbologist, who made up potions and cures. Arguably these sort of people did much more towards curing you than the quacks who went by the name of "doctors". If anything, the book looks to be either a hedge doctor (a generic catchall name for a peasant doctor) or a herbologist.