Textual healing
Subtitle: studies in medieval English medical, scientific and technical texts
By: Javier E. Díaz Vera & Rosario Caballero (eds)
Series: Linguistic insights: studies in language and communication; v.101
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9783039118229
Subjects: English language; Medical English; Medieval Medicine; Technical English; Scientific literature; History; Medical literature; Intellectual life
Description: The studies concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical varieties of early English used in a wide range of medieval manuscripts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Null objects in Middle English medical texts / Francisco Alonso-Almeida; title: The Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow / Graham D. Caie; title: Line-final Word Division in Late Middle English Fachprosa: G.U.L. MS Hunter / Javier Calle-Martin; title: What is this, a betel, or a batowe, or a buskin lacyd?: Lexicological Confusion in Medieval Clothing Culture / Mark Chambers; title: Analysing the Diffusion of Scientific Metaphors through a Corpus of Middle English Medical Texts / Javier E. Diaz-Vera; title: Puntuation Practice in G.U.L. MS Hunter / Maria Laura Esteban-Segura; title: Teresa Marqués-Aguado the dialectal provenance of G.U.L. MS Hunter; title: An annotated corpus of Middle English scientific prose: aims & features / David Moreno-Olalla, Antonio Miranda-Garcia; title: Lexical Study of The Book of Operation (G.U.L. MS Hunter; title: (t.4.12) ff.82r-156v): illnesses and treatment; title: orality in the Middle English medical recipes of G.U.L. Hunter / Elena Quntana-Toledo; title: Early English Scientific Writing: New Corpora, New Approache / Irma Taavitsainen.