Sarah Star

Henry Daniel and the Rise of Middle English Medical Writing

Herausgeber: Star, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of original essays introduces readers to the work of Henry Daniel, exploring his many contributions from medical, historical, and literary perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781487529536
• ISBN-10: 1487529538
• Artikelnr.: 62233850

Autorenporträt

Sarah Star is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Kenyon College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Sigils of Witnesses
Introduction: Reading Henry Daniel
Sarah Star
Part One: Contexts
1. Latin Traditions of Uroscopy
Faith Wallis
2. Translation, Comparison, and Adaptation: Latin Verse Herbals in the
Aaron Danielis
Winston Black
3. Henry Daniel and His Medical Contemporaries in England
Peter Murray Jones
Part Two: Texts and Legacy
4. Textual Layers in the Liber Uricrisiarum
E. Ruth Harvey
5. The Heirs of Henry Daniel: The Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Legacy
of the Liber Uricrisiarum
M. Teresa Tavormina
6. "Her ovn self seid me": The Function of Anecdote in Henry Daniel’s Liber
Uricrisiarum
Hannah Bower
7. The "almost-Latin" Medical Language of Late Medieval England
Sarah Star
Appendix: Liber Uricrisiarum Content Guide
Manuscript Index
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index