1st Edition
Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550 Body Parts, Sicknesses, Instruments, and Medicinal Preparations
By Juhani Norri
1310 Pages
by
Routledge
1310 Pages
by
Routledge
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Medical texts written in English during the late Middle Ages have in recent years attracted increasing attention among scholars. From approximately 1375 onwards, the use of English began to gain a firmer foothold in medical manuscripts, which in previous centuries had been written mainly in Latin or French. Scholars of Middle English, and editors of medical texts from late medieval England, are... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: lexical fields included in the dictionary; Anglicized vs. non-Anglicized terms; Arrangement and content of the entries; Texts analysed for the dictionary; Editorial principles; References to pages, folios and signatures; Texts and their sigla; References to Latin, French and Dutch originals; The dictionary; Works cited, Index.
Biography
Juhani Norri is a Lecturer in English at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is the author of two earlier books on the history of English medical vocabulary, Names of Sicknesses in English, 1400–1550: An Exploration of the Lexical Field (1992) and Names of Body Parts in English, 1400–1550 (1998).
