Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry

Name: Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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By Eve Salisbury

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Exploring medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the "Great Mortality", this book examines the storytelling practices of poets, patients, and physicians in the midst of a medieval public health crisis and demonstrates how literary narratives enable us to see a kinship between poetry and the healing arts.Looking at how we can learn to diagnose a text as if we were diagnosing a body, Salisbury provides new insights into how we can recuperate the voices of those afflicted by illness in medieval texts when we have no direct testimony. She considers how we interpret stories told by patients in narratives mediated by others, ways that women factor into the shaping of a medical canon, how medical writing intersects with religious belief and memorial practices governed by the Church, and ways that regimens of health benefit a population in the throes of an epidemic.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 240
Release Date:: 2022-09-08
Publication Date:: 2022-09-08
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350249793
ISBN13:: 9781350249790
Weight:: 529 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

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