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T1 The Five Wits in English Medical Literature, 1375-1600
T2 Los cinco sentidos en la literatura médica inglesa, 1375-1600
A1 Taavitsainen, Irma
A1 Honkapohja, Alpo
K1 medieval medicine
K1 dissemination of knowledge
K1 corpora
K1 theory
K1 practice
K1 manuscripts
K1 editions
AB The five wits were an important component of culture in the Middle Ages, and passagesdealing with the bodily wits occur frequently in early vernacular medical literature (1375-1600). Our aim is to relate these texts to their readers to detect how the commonplace waspresented to various audiences. We shall apply two lines of research. First, we shall discussthe linguistic realizations with qualitative discourse analysis. The data come from two digitalcorpora, Middle English Medical Texts (Taavitsainen, Pahta and Mäkinen 2005) and EarlyModern English Medical Texts (Taavitsainen et al. 2010), compiled from edited versions.The scope of these passages is wide, ranging from theoretical treatises of natural philosophyand surgery to compendia and practical adaptations in recipes and remedybooks. Second,we provide case studies on the underlying manuscript reality by philological methods andstudy the same or related passages in some Cambridge and British Library manuscripts. Theanalysis showcases the importance of going back to the versions that reached the medievalaudiences for the dissemination of medical knowledge in the early periods.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/34382
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 27-jul-2024