Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Science and Medicine
Author: Rachel Falconer
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9783823378204
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Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Science and Medicine
Author: Rachel Falconer Denis Renevey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2014-12-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 3823368206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-10-23
Total Pages: 767
ISBN-13: 311055772X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.
History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning
Author: Nancy G. Siraisi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0472037463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. With remarkably detailed scholarship, Siraisi investigates doctors’ efforts to explore the legacies handed down to them from ancient medical and anatomical writings.
Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England
Author: Jennifer C. Vaught
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 131706321X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science, and medicine in England and its surrounding European context. In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health ” physical, emotional, and spiritual. The contributors to this collection approach their intriguing subjects from a wide range of timely, theoretical, and interdisciplinary perspectives, including the philosophy of language, semiotics, and linguistics; ecology; women's and gender studies; religion; and the history of medicine. The essays focus on works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others; the genres of epic, lyric, satire, drama, and the sermon; and cultural history artifacts such as medieval anatomies, the arithmetic of plague bills of mortality, meteorology, and medical guides for healthy regimens.
Textual Healing
Author: Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9004146636
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in the culture of healing.
Science and the Secrets of Nature
Author: William Eamon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 0691214611
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric "secrets of nature." In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines.
Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
Author: Bryon Lee Grigsby
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780415968225
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Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture
Author: Virginia Langum
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 113744990X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England
Author: Annette Kern-Stähler
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-05-02
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9004315497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies. Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England. Contributors include: Dieter Bitterli, Beatrix Busse, Rory Critten, Javier Díaz-Vera, Tobias Gabel, Jens Martin Gurr, Katherine Hindley, Farah Karim-Cooper, Annette Kern-Stähler, Richard Newhauser, Sean Otto, Virginia Richter, Elizabeth Robertson, and Kathrin Scheuchzer
