Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague

ISBN-13: 9781350249790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

SALISBURY EVE

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Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction The Making of a Medical Discourse Narrative Medicine and Medical Humanities Microcosmic Bodies Chapter Overview Chapter 1 Honoring the Stories of Illness in Chaucer Physician, Heal Thyself Charting “Pestilence” The Wounded Child Diagnosing the Summoner and the Friar Diagnosing the Pardoner: “This” Pestilence Wounded Knight / Wounded Storyteller Medicinal Barnyard Medicinal Gardens and the Hortus Conclusus Toward a Healing Philosophy Chapter 2 Therapeutic Dialogue and Intersubjective Medicine in Gower and Langland Pestilence and Penitence Confession and the Seven Deadly Sins Medical Consciousness and the Psychophysiological Body Practitioner and Priest Reading the Cardiocentric Body: Langland Reading the Cardiocentric Body: Gower Gower’s “Physique” and the “Parfit Practisour” Health in an Unhealthy World: Langland Health in an Unhealthy World: Gower Diagnosing the Storyteller’s Illness Chapter 3 Lydgate and Hoccleve: Dietetic Medicine and the Medicalization of Madness “A Doctrine and Diet for the Pestilence” “How the Plague was Ceased in Rome” “Fabula Duorum Mercatorum” Death and its Dance Death and the Physician: A Dialogue Lydgate Meets Hoccleve Virtually Knock, Knock, Who’s There? Learning to Die Fables from the Gesta Romanorum Reading the Fables Allegorically Go Little Book, Go! Chapter 4 Inscribing Medicine: Thornton Household Remedies John of Burgundy’s De Epidemia and Thornton’s “Medcynes for the Pestilence” From Pestilence to Wounds From the Literal to the Literary: Wounding Reading for Dis-ease The Healing Power of Blood Fever Toothache Childbirth Narrating Medicine in Thornton Household Recipes Chapter 5 Women Healers, Life Writing, and Therapeutic Reading Women Healers and Communal Medicine Pestilence and Household Healing Chronicling the Pestilence Passion to Compassion Heart and Soul Therapeutic Reading for Women Medicine for Dis-ease Therapeutic Reading and the Vertu of Women’s Healing Two Virtuous Women of Romance Bad Medicine: The Vilification of Women Healers Narrating Medicine for Women Chapter 6 Afterword: A Prognosis Illness Narratives vs. Plague Narratives Looking Back Looking Ahead Bibliography