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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Surgery and the Wounds of Sin
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Surgery and Metaphor
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Surgery and Embodiment
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'Citrome leaves almost no leaf unturned in this comprehensive exploration of surgery in medical and religious writings of later medieval England. His delineation of the concurrent development of the new view of surgery and the emphasis on personal penitence in the centuries following the Fourth Lateran Council is very compelling, as is his argument for the metaphorical significance of surgery in penitential treatises. His re-interpretations of Cleanness, Siege of Jerusalem, and John Audelay's poems are provocative, to say the least, and demand a reconsideration of their artistry. This book should make us all more conscious of how contemporary medicine understanding influenced both the assumptions of and forms of expression in Middle English literature.' - George R. Keiser, Professor of English, Kansas State University; author of The Middle English 'Boke of Stones': The Southern Version (1984) and A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, Vol. 10: Science and Information (1998)
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Book Title: The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature
Authors: Jeremy J. Citrome
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09681-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6846-3Published: 05 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-09681-4Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 191
Topics: History of Medicine, History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, Classical and Antique Literature