Healing & Society in Medieval England: A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of...

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Faye Marie Getz

Healing & Society in Medieval England

A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of Gilbertus Anglicus

Faye Marie Getz

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University of Wisconsin Press
15 December 2010

History; History of medicine; Pharmacology

Originally composed in Latin by Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman), his Compendium of Medicine was a primary text of the medical revolution in thirteenth-century Europe. Composed mainly of medicinal recipes, it offered advice on diagnosis, medicinal preparation, and prognosis. In the fifteenth-century it was translated into Middle English to accommodate a widening audience for learning and medical “secrets.”

Faye Marie Getz provides a critical edition of the Middle English text, with an extensive introduction to the learned, practical, and social components of medieval medicine and a summary of the text in modern English. Getz also draws on both the Latin and Middle English texts to create an extensive glossary of little-known Middle English pharmaceutical and medical vocabulary.

Edited by: Faye Marie Getz
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780299129347
ISBN 10: 0299129349
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 15 December 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Healing & Society in Medieval England: A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of Gilbertus Anglicus

[This] edition places in our hands a medical book that looks two ways: toward the massive Latin compilation of Gilbertus, whose rhetoric of medicine comes through surprisingly unfiltered, and toward the 'practices' of medicine mediated in English during the fifteenth-century. --Lea Olsan, Studies in the Age of Chaucer