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... • “O Multiplied Misery The Disordered Medical Narrative of John Donne’s Devotions Jessica Tabak Brown University Providence, Rhode Island In what...

...Marion Turner Medical language permeated all kinds of texts in premodern Europe, including legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings. The essays in this special issue are particularly interested in the functions of metaphor and of narrative. Many thinkers...

...Margaret Healy In the political turmoil of mid-seventeenth-century England, both socio-political utopias and dystopias were repeatedly imagined through corporeal images and medical metaphors and narratives. The new iatrochemistry—Paracelsian and subsequently Helmontian medicine—featured especially...

...Clarissa Chenovick Henry of Lancaster's Livre de Seyntz Medicines is a vividly medicalized penitential narrative composed by a leading lay nobleman of fourteenth-century England. Grounded in the physiology of the medieval heart, Lancaster's understudied Livre demonstrates how medieval medical...

... in their narratives. All focus on the limits of narrative and narrator alike, modeling the inability of narrative to make sense of pain. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 medieval medical language illness narratives Geoffrey Chaucer John Arderne Thomas Hoccleve...

..., devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings; equally medical writings drew on a range of discursive practices, 454  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.2 / 2014 often employing ostentatiously literary narrative techniques. Many mod- ern thinkers, most famously...

... production with a broader consideration of how this new material enables us to revise established narratives about the nature and uses of early modern books. Deadline for submission of manuscripts: July 1, 2014 Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe Edited by Marion Turner Volume 46 / Number...

... contemporary critics a new perspective on what it is to give a disease a meaning. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 medieval Belle Dame sans Mercy debate illness narratives medical metaphor Achille Caulier Cruelle Femme en Amour and Hôpital d'Amour...

... kinds of texts in premodern Europe, includ- ing legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings; equally medical writings drew on a range of discursive practices, often employing ostentatiously literary narrative techniques. Many mod- ern thinkers, most...

... are reflected in narratives of illness in which women suffer instantly and intensely in response to rela- tional stimuli and men downplay their emotions by focusing on subsequent physiological processes. These gender norms were also substantiated by medical conceptions of the body that deemed...

... in nonmedical literature such as travel treatises; and concepts of disease in pan-European myth-making. The volume concludes with a description of a major archive for the study of medical history, the Duke University History of Medicine Collections. In a sense, each essay encapsulates both the promise...

... bodies,” thinking this will impress judges. Nor should the surgeon weigh down his report with the citation of medical authorities: “these kinds of scientific discourses could not be used in a worse way than as providing subject matter for a dissertation in a narrative whose perfection depends on its...

..., prayers, medical texts, and amulets dedicated to Saint Margaret were often used to comfort and protect the parturient woman during labor and appeal to God that the newborn be delivered safely. In this essay, I draw from five late medieval lives of Saint Margaret in the South English Legendary...

...Susan Zimmerman The derogation of leprosy in medieval culture was disproportionate to its medical threat, presumably influenced by the spectacle of a disintegrative process akin to putrefaction. In the medieval imaginary, leprous blood was linked to menstrual blood, supposedly discharged by both...

... on what could be seen with the eyes through the practice of dissection. There- after the most authoritative philosophical and medical pronouncements of the day (by the Hippocratics, Galen, and Ibn Sina) were put to rest unless the eye of the inquirer could confirm them. Vesalius’s masterpiece repre...

... by thick bureaucracy, inquisitors, and confessors, such a testimony may have seemed utterly natural, indeed com- pulsory, for his New World tale resonates with contemporary confessional modes of colonial first-person narration, namely, the Spanish relación.19 The deployment of this narrative...

... of medical experience by separating an initial disease narrative based upon empirical observation, the observatio proper, from the learned discussion of it.25 Sixteenth-century physicians often cited Antonio Benivieni’s De abditis et non nullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis (Florence, 1507...

... thoroughly sealed casket one hundred thirty-­one years later. Was this new finding a prank, or was it another surprise concocted by an unnamed “pious gentleman” to reunite the poet with the ethereal and yet so present “Laura” figure of his sonnets? What these narratives illustrate, among...

.... This narrative of the masculinization and medicalization of child- birth typically continues with reference to increasingly stringent licensing 96  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 48.1 / 2018 practices and the emergence of university-­based courses of instruction in obstetrics, reserved...

... and always demand the careful work of a doctor).44 This brief narrative was a familiar part of medical historiography. In Vesa- lius’s retelling, the exemplary practitioner is given a heroic dimension as well as a divine one issuing from Aesclepius.45 In addition, the sons of Aesclepius are praised...