Symptomatic Subjects : Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England . /

In the period just prior to medicine's modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanski's Symptomatic Subjects shows how late medieval English writers drew on the discourse of medicine to narrate anew the crossings--and the conflicts--between physiology and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Orlemanski, Julie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Colección:Alembics.
Temas:
To 1500
Literature and medicine > England > History > To 1500.
Diseases > England > Causes and theories of causation > History > To 1500.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Causation in literature.
Medicine, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval.
Causation.
History, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Causality
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Causalité dans la littérature.
Médecine médiévale.
Littérature médiévale.
Causalité.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Diseases > Causes and theories of causation.
English literature > Middle English.
Literature and medicine.
Mittelenglisch
Literatur
Medizin > Motiv
Körper > Motiv
United Kingdom
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In the period just prior to medicine's modernity, England saw a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Julie Orlemanski's Symptomatic Subjects shows how late medieval English writers drew on the discourse of medicine to narrate anew the crossings--and the conflicts--between physiology and personhood.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 333 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0812296087
9780812296082

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