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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Alembics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. THINKING WITH PHISIK; Chapter 1. Imagining Etiology; Chapter 2. Cause, Authority, Sign, and Book; PART II. PLAYING WITH PHISIK; Chapter 3. Satire and Medical Materialism; Chapter 4. Embodying Causation in Exempla; PART III. EMPLOTTING PHISIK; Chapter 5. The Metaphysics of Phisik in the "Knight's Tale"; Chapter 6. Desire and Defacement in the Testament of Cresseid; PART IV. PERSONALIZING PHISIK; Chapter 7. Symptoms and the Signifying Condition in Hoccleve's Series; Chapter 8. From Noise to Narration in the Book of Margery Kempe; Coda Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments