Early Modern English Medical Texts
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Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139493833 |
Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the evolution of the special language of medicine, based on the electronic corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts, containing over two million words of medical writing from 1500 to 1700. The book presents results from large-scale empirical research on the new materials and provides a more detailed and diversified picture of domain-specific developments than any previous book. Three introductory chapters provide the sociohistorical, disciplinary and textual frame for nine empirical studies, which address a range of key issues in a wide variety of medical genres from fresh angles. The book is useful for researchers and students within several fields, including the development of special languages, genre and register analysis, (historical) corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and medical and cultural history.
Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027211774 |
The corpus "Early Modern English Medical Texts" (EMEMT) is the second component of the "Corpus of Early English Medical Writing "(CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English medical writings that appeared in print between 1500 and 1700, and provides continuity to "Middle English Medical Texts" (MEMT), published on CD-ROM by John Benjamins in 2005.The EMEMT corpus includes c. 230 texts, ranging from theoretical treatises rooted in academic traditions of medicine to popularized and utilitarian texts verging on household literature. The texts are grouped into six text categories that facilitate systematic research into the history of medical writing in its disciplinary context: general treatises and textbooks; treatises on specific topics; recipe collections and "materia medica"; regimen and health guides; surgical treatises; and samples of the first scientific journal, the "Philosophical Transactions."EMEMT is released on CD-Rom with "EMEMT Presenter," purpose-designed software by Raymond Hickey.The corpus is published with a book, "Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus Description and Studies," edited by Irma Taavitsainen & Paivi Pahta."
Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9789027203229 |
This volume provides a comprehensive description of the main developments in medicine in 1700-1800, based on the corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (LMEMT). Its main focus is on language use in context, with stylistic variation according to genres, authors and audiences. The book is accompanied by a CD-rom containing the corpus.
Author | : Elizabeth Lane Furdell |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004146636 |
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.
Author | : Mary Lindemann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2010-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521425921 |
A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Author | : Mary Ann Lund |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2010-01-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521190509 |
Lund demonstrates the significance of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy within early modern literary culture, covering religious and medical issues.
Author | : Lesel Dawson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191556092 |
In early modern medical texts, intense unfulfilled erotic desire is held to be a real and virulent disease: it is classified as a species of melancholy, with physical etiologies and cures. Lesel Dawson analyzes literary representations of lovesickness in relation to medical ideas about desire and wider questions about gender and identity, exploring the different ways that desire is believed to take root in the body, how gender roles are encoded and contested in courtship, and the psychic pains and pleasures of frustrated passion. She explores the relationship between women's lovesickness and other female maladies (such as hysteria and greensickness), and asks whether women can suffer from intellectual forms of melancholy generally thought to be exclusively male. Finally, she examines the ways in which Neoplatonism offers an alternative construction of love to that found in natural philosophy and considers how anxieties concerning love's ability to emasculate the male lover emerge indirectly in remedies for lovesickness. With reference to the works of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, Middleton, Ford, and Davenant, Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature investigates how early modern representations of lovesickness expose contemporary cultural constructions of love, revealing the relation of sexuality to spirituality and the creation and shattering of the impassioned subject. It offers an important contribution to the history of romantic love and will be of interest to students and scholars of literature, gender, and medical history.
Author | : John Slater |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317098382 |
Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in the early modern Spanish empire. The twelve chapters draw upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from drama, poetry, and sermons to broadsheets, travel accounts, chronicles, and Inquisitorial documents; and it surveys a tremendous regional scope, from Mexico, to the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Germany. Together, these essays propose a new interpretation of the circulation, reception, appropriation, and elaboration of ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity, and death, in a historical moment marked by continuous cross-pollination among institutions and populations with a decided stake in the functioning and control of the human body. Ultimately, the volume discloses how medical cultures provided demographic, analytical, and even geographic tools that constituted a particular kind of map of knowledge and practice, upon which were plotted: the local utilities of pharmacological discoveries; cures for social unrest or decline; spaces for political and institutional struggle; and evolving understandings of monstrousness and normativity. Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire puts the history of early modern Spanish medicine on a new footing in the English-speaking world.
Author | : Sarah Neville |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316515990 |
In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
Author | : L. Whaley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2011-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230295177 |
Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and challenges faced by women healers in France, Spain, Italy and England, including medical practice among women in the Jewish and Muslim communities, from the later Middle Ages to approximately 1800.