Medical And Scientific Writing In Late Medieval English

Author : Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521110419
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English written by Irma Taavitsainen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Middle Ages in England saw a flowering of scientific writing in the vernacular that moved English discourse in new directions and established new textual genres. This book examines the sociolinguistic causes and effects of that process, based on the empirical evidence from manuscripts and computerized files. Topics covered include scriptorial "house-styles", code-switching, translation strategies, and transmission processes. The book offers important new insights into vernacularization phenomena, and will be welcomed by historical linguists and medievalists alike.

Author : Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England written by Carole Rawcliffe and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a social context and using contemporary sources, this text explains how the medical profession (physicians, surgeons and apothecaries) developed and functioned in late medieval England. Against a backdrop of high morality, widespread disease and persistent problems of public health, it considers what alternatives were available to the patient, from society doctors to wise women, quacks and hospitals for the sick poor. Medical theories and practices of the time are investigated, along with the often satirical and sometimes hostile attitudes of the man on the street.

Author : Thomas F. Glick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135459398
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine written by Thomas F. Glick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. Coverage includes inventions, discoveries, concepts, places and fields of study, regions, and significant contributors to various fields of science. There are also entries on South-Central and East Asian science. This reference work provides an examination of medieval scientific tradition as well as an appreciation for the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted and those that replaced it. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.

Author : Rachel Falconer Denis Renevey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3823368206
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Science and Medicine written by Rachel Falconer Denis Renevey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inter-disciplinary volume explores the poetics of medicine and science, and the scientific aspects of literary and devotional works in a wide-ranging selection of texts from the medieval and early modern periods. Areas of knowedge which we now regard as occupying separate and specialist spheres, were freely and fluidly hybridized in medieval and early modern times

Author : Sarah Star
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487529554
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing written by Sarah Star and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Daniel, fourteenth-century medical writer, Dominican friar, and contemporary of Chaucer, is one of the most neglected figures to whom we can attribute a substantial body of extant works in Middle English. His Liber Uricrisiarum, the earliest known medical text in Middle English, synthesizes authoritative traditions into a new diagnostic encyclopedia characterized by its stylistic verve and intellectual scope. Drawing on expertise from a range of scholars, this volume examines Daniel’s capacious works and demonstrates their significance to many scholarly conversations, including the history of late medieval medicine. It explains the background for Daniel’s uroscopic and herbal work, describes all known versions of the Liber Uricrisiarum and traces revisions over time, analyses Daniel’s representations of his own medical practice, and demonstrates his influence on later medical and literary writers. Both a companion to the recently published reading edition of the Liber Uricrisiarum and a work of original scholarship in its own right, this collection promotes a wider understanding of Daniel’s texts and prompts new discoveries about their importance.

Author : Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493833
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Writing in Early Modern English written by Irma Taavitsainen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles. The book is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.

Author : Alicia Rodríguez Alvarez
Publisher : Netbiblo
ISBN 13 : 9780972989206
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices on the Past written by Alicia Rodríguez Alvarez and published by Netbiblo. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this volume is to offer a number of scholarly papers dealing with various aspects of medieval English language and literature. Voices on Medieval is organised in three main sections, according to contents: (1) medical and scientific texts and manuscripts, (2) language and linguistics, and (3) literature and culture. Bibliographic references and primary sources are given after each article, preceding the notes. We have devoted a special section to studies which portray ongoing research in the field of scientific and medical manuscripts. These essays correspond to a reflection of projects and individual work currently carried out in different European research centres and universities, such as in the Department of English of the University of Helsinki, in the Department of Modern Philology of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and in the Department of English of the University of Málaga. This special section will represent, we hope, a further contribution to the field and, also, to the forthcoming titles by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta Medical and Scientific Writing in Late Medieval English (OUP) and Corpus of Middle English Medical Texts (John Benjamins).

Author : Julie Orlemanski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296087
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symptomatic Subjects written by Julie Orlemanski and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the period just prior to medicine's modernity—before the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricism—England was the scene of a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Between the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 and the emergence of printed English books a century and a quarter later, thousands of discrete medical texts were copied, translated, and composed, largely for readers outside universities. These widely varied texts shared a model of a universe crisscrossed with physical forces and a picture of the human body as a changeable, composite thing, tuned materially to the world's vicissitudes. According to Julie Orlemanski, when writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Henryson, Thomas Hoccleve, and Margery Kempe drew on the discourse of phisik—the language of humors and complexions, leprous pustules and love sickness, regimen and pharmacopeia—they did so to chart new circuits of legibility between physiology and personhood. Orlemanski explores the texts of her vernacular writers to show how they deployed the rich terminology of embodiment and its ailments to portray symptomatic figures who struggled to control both their bodies and the interpretations that gave their bodies meaning. As medical paradigms mingled with penitential, miraculous, and socially symbolic systems, these texts demanded that a growing number of readers negotiate the conflicting claims of material causation, intentional action, and divine power. Examining both the medical writings of late medieval England and the narrative and poetic works that responded to them, Symptomatic Subjects illuminates the period's conflicts over who had the authority to construe bodily signs and what embodiment could be made to mean.

Author : Javier E. Díaz Vera
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039118229
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Textual Healing written by Javier E. Díaz Vera and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical varieties of early English used in a wide range of medieval manuscripts.

Author : Virginia Langum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113744990X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture written by Virginia Langum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to be angry, sad, or greedy? If so, then is it their fault? Virginia Langum offers an account of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions in religious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioral discussions within medical contexts. The study draws upon medical and theological writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular works of religion, as well as poetry, to show how these themes were articulated, explored, and questioned more widely in medieval culture.