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Henry Daniel and the rise of Middle English medical writing /

"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, synthesi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Star, Sarah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Sigils of Witnesses
  • Introduction Reading Henry Daniel
  • PART ONE Contexts
  • Chapter One Latin Traditions of Uroscopy
  • Chapter Two Translation, Comparison, and Adaptation: Latin Verse Herbals in the Aaron Danielis
  • Chapter Three Henry Daniel and His Medical Contemporaries in England
  • PART TWO Texts and Legacy
  • Chapter Four Textual Layers in the Liber Uricrisiarum
  • Chapter Five The Heirs of Henry Daniel: The Fifteenthand Sixteenth-Century Legacy of the Liber Uricrisiarum
  • Chapter Six "Her ovn self seid me": The Function of Anecdote in Henry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum
  • Chapter Seven The "almost-Latin" Medical Language of Late Medieval England
  • Appendix: Content Guide for the Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Manuscript Index
  • Index