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Darrera modificació: 2021-08-12
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Orlemanski, Julie, "Thornton's remedies and practices of medical reading", dins: Fein, Susanna - Johnston, Michael (eds.), Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and LondonTornton Manuscripts, York, York Medieval Press, 2014, pp. 235-255.
- Resum
- Robert Thornton's Lincoln manuscript, Lincoln Cathedral Library, MS 91, falls into three distinct sections, constituted respectively by romances, moral and devotional materials, and medical and pharmaceutical knowledge. I consider the medical section of Thornton's book. At present it consists of a Middle English remedy collection known as the Liber de Diversis Medicinis and six paper fragments that are the vestiges of a Middle English herbal in Thornton's hand. The inclusion of these two works of practical and therapeutic knowledge in Thornton's book takes on its full significance only in light of late medieval trends in reading, writing and book production in England, especially the efflorescence of medical textuality. I place Thornton's medical writings within this broader context to determine how they relate to contemporary genres of scientific and practical knowledge. I also seek to characterize how typical, or exceptional, was Thornton's inclusion of a remedy collection and herbal alongside Middle English romances. Vernacular literature, like medicine, was a category in formation and in flux in the fifteenth century. Both discourses were reaching new readers and evolving to meet altered conditions of reception. Under what circumstances did they appear together, and what might this tell us about secular reading practices?
- Matèries
- Anglès
Medicina - Farmacologia
Manuscrits
Medicina
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/7509080/_Thorntons_Remedie ...
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