Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing /

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

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 au...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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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

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