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Darrera modificació: 2019-08-28
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Green, Monica H., "Salerno on the Thames: The Genesis of Anglo-Norman Medical Literature", dins: Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn - Collette, Carolyn - Kowaleski, Maryanne - Mooney, Linne - Putter, Ad - Trotter, David (eds.), Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c. 1100-c. 1500, York, York Medieval Press, 2009, pp. 220-231.
- Resum
- Now that a fair amount of Anglo-Norman medical literature has been edited (most of it by the Oxford scholar, Tony Hunt), it is possible to give some assessment of the genesis of this unusually early corpus of vernacular medical writing. Like the Anglo-Saxon medical corpus before it, the Anglo-Norman corpus makes a fundamentally Mediterranean system of medicine accessible to readers (and auditors) in the north. In fact, England was one of the biggest markets for southern Italian medicine in the 12th and 13th centuries: of all the Latin medical works circulating in this period, whether new compositions and translations or old classics, England had copies of well over half. Therefore, it becomes of interest to see which of those many works were chosen for translation into the vernacular. Although works of basic therapeutic utility like Roger of Frugardi's Chirurgia and Johannes Platearius's Practica brevis are known in unique copies, the field most represented in Anglo-Norman medical literature is women's medicine: gynecology and cosmetics. The gynecological texts are all translations of some form or another of the so-called Trotula text, which came out of 12th-century Salerno, specifically the Liber de sinthomatibus mulierum (Book on Women's Conditions). Likewise, the two known cosmetics works have clear signs of derivation from southern Italian practices. I hypothesize that these works may have been commissioned by women, who knew of the medical lore coming out of southern Italy through a variety of Norman contacts. Just how new works in “the French of England” interacted with older Anglo-Saxon terminology is an issue still in need of investigation.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/11814303/Monica_H._Green_S ...
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