The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature [electronic resource] /
Citrome, J.author.
Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical writings are among the texts discussed in this wide-ranging study.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical writings are among the texts discussed in this wide-ranging study.
Medicine-History.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Literature, Medieval.
Classical literature.
History of Medicine.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Literature.
Classical and Antique Literature.