Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-267) and index.
Contents:
Vernacularisation of scientific and medical writing in its sociohistorical context / Päivi Pahta and Irma Taavitsainen -- Discourse communities and medical texts / Claire Jones -- Transferring classical discourse forms into the vernacular / Irma Taavitsainen -- Code-switching in medieval medical writing / Päivi Pahta -- Entrances and exits in English medical vocabulary, 1400-1550 / Juhani Norri -- Herbal recipes and recipes in herbals - intertextuality in early English medical writing / Martti Mäkinen -- Middle English recipes: vernacularisation of a text-type / Ruth Carroll -- The 'Declaracions' of Richard of Wallingford: A case study of a Middle English astrological treatise / Linda Ehrsam Voigts -- Scriptorial 'house-styles' and discourse communities / Irma Taavitsainen.
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