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OverviewMedical 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 thus faced with a huge medical vocabulary which no single volume has yet attempted to define. This dictionary is therefore an essential reference tool. The material analysed in the Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary in English, 1375–1550 includes edited texts, manuscripts and early printed books, and represents three main types of medical writing: surgical manuals and tracts; academic treatises by university-trained physicians, and remedybooks. The dictionary covers four lexical fields: names of sicknesses, body parts, instruments, and medicinal preparations. Entries are structured as follows: (1) headword (2) scribal variants occurring in the texts (3) etymology (4) definition(s), each definition followed by relevant quotations (5) references to corresponding entries in the Dictionary of Old English, Middle English Dictionary, and The Oxford English Dictionary (6) references to academic books and articles containing information on the history and/or meaning of the term. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Juhani NorriPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Weight: 3.088kg ISBN: 9781472478405ISBN 10: 1472478401 Pages: 1298 Publication Date: 18 February 2016 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJuhani 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |