... century, such vision-­narratives tend to adopt real-­world professional dis- courses, such as legal or medical language and imagery. Allegory’s moral- izing function is thus yoked to notions of culpability, incarceration, disease. Late medieval French literature’s most compelling convergence...

... the body are fundamentally important to the ancient and late antique texts that Strouse analyzes. Medical language here proves to be foundational for early medieval hermeneutics. Using the work of theorists including Vico and Merleau-­Ponty to discuss embodied metaphor, Healy argues...

..., and of language was simultaneously desired and resisted in experiences of medical discourse and treatment. Bishop’s picture of the Middle Ages echoes a modern fantasy of premodern alterity, in which medieval embodiment is somehow untrau- matic and immediate. This edenic or childlike acceptance...

... 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...

... httpmedren.trinity.duke.edu/jmems Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 44:3, Fall 2014 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2792018  © 2014 by Duke University Press Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe Edited by Marion Turner Volume 46 / Number 1 / January 2016 Medical language permeated all...

... for submission of manuscripts: July 1, 2014 Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe Edited by Marion Turner Volume 46 / Number 1 / Winter 2016 Medical language permeated all kinds of texts in premodern Europe, includ- ing legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical...

... discourses, or the interplay between contemporary theorizations about medical language and premodern texts. As a whole, the issue will demonstrate some of the ways in which current work in medieval and early modern studies has an important place in the fields of medical humanities and literature...

... available in physically and spiritually concrete ways to those who read or hear the text. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 medieval spirituality and meditation medical language and metaphor physiology of the heart Henry Duke of Lancaster Livre de Seyntz Medicines...

... Passions were one of the six “nonnaturals” of late medieval medical theory, hygenic elements of health requiring regulation. Intentions came from material ingredients, but also from language. Intentionality was what gave speech, writing, and signs their innate power to move readers and hearers...

... composed or compiled during the early medieval period (ca. 500 –  1100) in the Duke Collections; nor are there any manuscripts recorded in the vernacular languages by nonacademic lay healers. 6 For an essential guide to conducting archival work on medieval medical history, designed...

... decades provided a stunning series of discoveries that paved the way for the medical advances and laboratory breakthroughs that followed. Contributions to this special issue consider broadly conceived questions about the languages of anatomy and show what an interdisciplinary framework can offer when...

.... The dissemination of the vocabulary of secrets in gynecological texts throughout Europe suggests that medical discourses were by no means isolated from the larger intellectual culture of high and later medieval Europe. On the contrary, as the evidence presented here will show, not sim...

... to 18  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 48.1 / 2018 the diversity of linguistic systems that Europeans encountered in the early years of contact with indigenous peoples. These languages sounded so alien to European ears that Columbus, for one, doubted at times that he was even...

... conceived questions about the languages of anatomy. What might an interdisciplinary frame- work offer when examining biological and physiological material? How can scholars and medical practitioners collaborate to make the past significant to today’s academic concerns? Deadline for submission...

... 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 452  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 46.2 / 2016 the eye of the inquirer could...

... of the Aldine complete Galen (1525 – 26), nearly all the texts they trans- lated already existed in medieval Latin versions translated from either Greek or Ara- bic. Linacre, he shows, made disparaging remarks especially about the versions taken from Arabic (85). For medical humanism...

... and deep range of early medieval knowledge or scientia — from medical practices to agricultural rituals, cosmological speculation to metallurgical imagery, not to mention a prevailing concern with literary or “bookish” knowledge. What is more, the charms and dialogues do not merely display...

... with bodily contaminants, the fear of the invasion of the body organism by an “unassimilable other” — but in the context of a specific disease in a circumscribed timeframe. Zimmerman argues that the mostly negative responses to leprosy in medieval culture were disproportionate to its medical threat...

..., 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...

... Andrea Carlino, “Style, Langue, Profession: Quelques enjeux de l’irruption du vernaculaire dans la literature médicale du xvie siècle,” in Vulgariser la médecine du style médical en France et en Italie, ed. Carlino and Jeanneret, 9 – 31. 31 Ibid. 32 Vigo, Prattica, description for I...