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Title Henry Daniel and the rise of Middle English medical writing / edited by Sarah Star
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Sigils of Witnesses -- Introduction Reading Henry Daniel -- PART ONE Contexts -- Chapter One Latin Traditions of Uroscopy -- Chapter Two Translation, Comparison, and Adaptation: Latin Verse Herbals in the Aaron Danielis -- Chapter Three Henry Daniel and His Medical Contemporaries in England -- PART TWO Texts and Legacy -- Chapter Four Textual Layers in the Liber Uricrisiarum -- Chapter Five The Heirs of Henry Daniel: The Fifteenthand Sixteenth-Century Legacy of the Liber Uricrisiarum -- Chapter Six "Her ovn self seid me": The Function of Anecdote in Henry Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum -- Chapter Seven The "almost-Latin" Medical Language of Late Medieval England -- Appendix: Content Guide for the Liber Uricrisiarum: A Reading Edition -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Manuscript Index -- Index
Summary "Henry Daniel, fourteenth-century medical writer, Dominican friar, and contemporary of Chaucer, is one of the most neglected figures to whom we can attribute a substantial body of extant works in Middle English. His Liber Uricrisiarum, the earliest known medical text in Middle English, synthesizes authoritative traditions into a new diagnostic encyclopedia characterized by its stylistic verve and intellectual scope. Drawing on expertise from a range of scholars, this volume examines Daniel's capacious works and demonstrates their significance to many scholarly conversations, including the history of late medieval medicine. It explains the background for Daniel's uroscopic and herbal work, describes all known versions of the Liber Uricrisiarum and traces revisions over time, analyses Daniel's representations of his own medical practice, and demonstrates his influence on later medical and literary writers. Both a companion to the recently published reading edition of the Liber Uricrisiarum and a work of original scholarship in its own right, this collection promotes a wider understanding of Daniel's texts and prompts new discoveries about their importance."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 07, 2022)
Subject Daniel, Henry (Medical writer)
SUBJECT Daniel, Henry (Medical writer)
Subject Medicine, Medieval -- England
Medical writing -- History -- To 1500
Medical literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
Medicine, Medieval.
Medicine -- History.
History, Medieval
History of Medicine
history of medicine.
HISTORY / Medieval
Medicine
Intellectual life
Medical literature
Medical writing
Medicine, Medieval
SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043300
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Star, Sarah, editor.
ISBN 1487529554
9781487529543
1487529546
9781487529550