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Title:

Medical and scientific writing in late medieval English / edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Paivi Pähta.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xvii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Medical English.
English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Technical English.
Scientific literature--England--History--To 1500.
Medical literature--England--History--To 1500.
Medicine, Medieval--England.
Science, Medieval.

Other Authors:

Taavitsainen, Irma.
Pahta, Päivi.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Studies in English language

ISBN:

9780521831338
0521831334

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52380972

LCCN:

2003055077

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)