Lenz, T. S. (Author)
This groundbreaking volume explores the intersection of dreams, medicine, and literary practice in the poetry of Chaucer and influential literary works from antiquity through the late fourteenth century. An introductory exploration considers topics such as Asclepian dream healings of ancient Greece, Old English poetry, medieval mystics, and foundational works by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Avicenna, Macrobius, and others. Detailed analyses of a series of Chaucer's poems follow. Frequently incorporating and commenting on antecedent works, these late medieval poems span various genres including the dream-vision, the romance-tragedy, and the comic tale. Dreams and medicine are woven into the fabric of these texts, the author contends, revealing distinct and often surprising insights. One such insight is the `double potential' of literary practice, medicine, and dreams - that is, each is capable of facilitating healing and wholeness yet equally capable of causing harm and disease. Ultimately, this book shows that the joining together of medicine and dreams constitutes a vital dimension of these key works in Western literature - one that reveals a profound connection between literature and the fundamentally human experiences of disease, healing, and dreaming.
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Voigts, Linda Ehrsam;
(2012)
Herbs and Herbal Healing Satirized in Middle English Texts
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Paola Carusi;
(2020)
Il colore dei sogni e delle passioni
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Bolens, Guillemette;
(2011)
La présence du cadavre et son efficacité sémiotique: Morphée chez Geoffrey Chaucer et Caïn dans Mactatio Abel
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Julie Orlemanski;
(2019)
Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England
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Yeager, R. F.;
(2012)
Gower and Chaucer on Pain and Suffering: Jephte's Daughter in the Bible, the “Physician's Tale”, and the Confessio Amantis
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Laird, Edgar;
(2012)
Grosseteste, Wyclif, and Chaucer on Universals
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Vaught, Jennifer C.;
(2010)
Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England
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Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel;
Gilman, Ernest B.;
(2011)
Representing the Plague in Early Modern England
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Schwartz, Louis;
(2009)
Milton and Maternal Mortality
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Milner, Matthew;
(2013)
The Physics of Holy Oats: Vernacular Knowledge, Qualities, and Remedy in Fifteenth-Century England
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Roychoudhury, Suparna;
(2012)
Forswearing Fever: Medicine, Materialism, and Shakespeare's Sonnet 147
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Carpenter, Mary Wilson;
(2010)
Medical Cosmopolitanism: Middlemarch, Cholera, and the Pathologies of English Masculinity
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Culpeper, Nicholas;
Flannery, Michael A.;
(2007)
The English Physician
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Machline, Vera Cecilia;
(2013)
The Role of Plauto in Richard Blackmore's Conceptions about the Spleen
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Noble, Louise Christine;
(2011)
Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
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Orlemanski, Julie;
(2012)
Jargon and the Matter of Medicine in Middle English
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Lori Ann Garner;
(2022)
Hybrid healing: Old English remedies and medical texts
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Sugg, Richard;
(2007)
Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England
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Covington, Sarah;
(2009)
Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England
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Klaus-Dietrich Fischer;
(2012)
De medicina verborum traditorum in scriptis medicis post annum fere millesimum adhibita
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