Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing / / ed. by Sarah Star.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Black, Winston,; Bower, Hannah,; Harvey, E. Ruth,; Jones, Peter Murray,; Star, Sarah,; Tavormina, M. Teresa,; Wallis, Faith,
• HerausgeberIn: Star, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

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, synthesizes authoritative traditions into a new diagnostic encyclopedia characterized by its stylistic verve and intellectual scope. Drawing on expertise from a range of scholars, this volume examines Daniel’s capacious works and demonstrates their significance to many scholarly conversations, including the history of late medieval medicine. It explains the background for Daniel’s uroscopic and herbal work, describes all known versions of the Liber Uricrisiarum and traces revisions over time, analyses Daniel’s representations of his own medical practice, and demonstrates his influence on later medical and literary writers. Both a companion to the recently published reading edition of the Liber Uricrisiarum and a work of original scholarship in its own right, this collection promotes a wider understanding of Daniel’s texts and prompts new discoveries about their importance.

Table of Contents

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