... structures but also understood the inherent limitation that emplotment and narrativization entails. Focusing on a doctor, John Arderne, a patient-poet, Thomas Hoccleve, and a poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, the essay explores how all three reveal their understanding of the artifice of narrativizing pain and illness...

... fifteenth- century medical text (see fig. The text is a Middle English rendering of John Arderne’s surgical treatise on anal fistula, one of the most frequently translated medical writings in late medieval Britain, with four distinct Middle English translations of Arderne’s Latin The picture cannot...

... the actual pain of distentio animi. She shows how the sickly John Donne employs distinctive narrative strategies to recreate his own physical discomfort in the bodies of his readers. The Turner / Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe  3 difficulty and disorder of Donne’s...