Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England

by Julie Orlemanski

In the period just prior to medicine's modernity--before the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricism--England was the scene of a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Between the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 and the emergence of printed English books a century and a quarter later, thousands of discrete medical texts were copied, translated, and composed, largely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812250907
• ISBN13: 9780812250909
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"