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Darrera modificació: 2018-03-19
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Bishop, Louise M., Words, Stones, and Herbs: The Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England, Syracuse (NY), Syracuse University Press (Medieval Studies), 2007, xvi + 276 pp., il.
- Resum
- Inspired by the profound literary history of healing, this compelling book explores the cognitive and physical effects of words in relation to the healing process. Drawing on research in cognitive linguistics applied to medieval linguistic and cognitive philosophy, Louise M. Bishop presents a highly original and theoretically challenging examination of the intersection between medical manuscript and literary texts, such as the Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman. The art of healing is treated in light of words and context, social needs, cognitive presence, material reality, and political necessity. Carefully researched and powerfully argued, Words, Stones, and Herbs convincingly establishes the healing power of words in late medieval and Tudor England.
Contents:
* Introduction: Healing and the Vernacular
* 1. Galen's Shadow: An Outline of Medieval Medicine and Healing
* 2. The Material Shape of Thought and Word
* 3. Metaphor, Catharsis, Pharmakon: Words, Stones, and Herbs
* 4. Vernacular Science, Vernacular Poetry: Dangerous Reading
* 5. Gendered Healing: Metaphor and Practice
* 6. The Disease Called "Touch Me Not": A Fifteenth-Century Medical Manuscript Read in Context
* 7. Early Modern Medicine: Self-Help and State Authority
* Conclusion: The Subject of Healing
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Història de la literatura
Màgia - Màgia mèdica i protectora
Alquímia
Lectura i escriptura
Traduccions
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
- URL
- https://books.google.es/books?id=J1Mij3zbCs0C&lpg=P ...
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