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Jargon and the Matter of Medicine in Middle English
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 395–420.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Julie Orlemanski When the men and women of late medieval Britain began to read and produce medical writings on a scale unprecedented in earlier centuries, they faced the problem of jargon—that is, how to negotiate the interface between knowledge and nonsense in their literate practices...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2016
... on medical
language as jargon, Virginia Langum’s on surgery, confession, and skin, and
Daniel McCann’s on therapy and devotion are further enriching this field.5
The study of medical discourse and its flexibility connects with work on the
history of the emotions, on affect and feeling, on disability...
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Volume 42 Index
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 749–751.
Published: 01 September 2012
... Fox on Female Monastic Reform 615 – 634
750 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.3 / 2012
Low, Peter
Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art:
The Case of the Main Narthex Portal at Vézelay 657 – 698
Orlemanski, Julie
Jargon and the Matter of Medicine...
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Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 January 2016
... gets everything wrong, and as a result her use of this
discourse signals imperfectly understood jargon.45 And although one might
argue that this demonstrates antifeminism (on the part of the Nun’s Priest),
suggesting merely that women should not attempt to understand medicine,
rather than...
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The Macrohistory of Microhistory
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the stampede to cliché and jargon that
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jostles so much of scholarship. Not being a proper field is a luxury; it sets free
the voice. Fields come with institutional apparatus: journals, societies, and
conferences.11 And they have...
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Significant Gifts: Patterns of Exchange in Late Antique, Byzantine, and Early Islamic Diplomacy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (1): 79–101.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., their redistribution he frequently exhibited them
publicly, thereby converting at a stroke what had been marks of submission
into signs of his grandeur. In the jargon of economists, they now had use
value in addition to their exchange value. At last we have some equivalent
to the “exhibitions” that Mauss...
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The Work of Alchemy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 575–599.
Published: 01 September 2000
... man” (Chemical Theatre, 8).
13 As John Enck puts the case for Jonson: composing the various jargons “demanded the
painstaking gathering of learned terms from obscure lore and then organizing them...
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John Gower Illustrated: The Archer Images, Astronomical Science, and Poetic Identity
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 287–321.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... The description is analogous to texts in the tradition of what Gillian Evans calls “sub-Euclidean geometry” (we may dub the passages sub-Ptolemaic), just the sort where, to be engaged in the science, it suffices to do not much more than employ the jargon of lines, circles, triangles, and so on—fairly abstract...
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From “Diseases of Women” to “Secrets of Women”: The Transformation of Gynecological Literature in the Later Middle Ages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 January 2000
... medical jargon to refer to the exter-
nal female genitalia.)
Up through the twelfth century, therefore, the rhetoric of secrecy in
gynecological literature is used only within very narrow parameters. When
writing prefaces to their texts, late antique writers...
