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OverviewOriginally composed in Latin by Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman), his Compendium of Medicine was a primary text of the medical revolution in thirteenth-century Europe. Composed mainly of medicinal recipes, it offered advice on diagnosis, medicinal preparation, and prognosis. In the fifteenth-century it was translated into Middle English to accommodate a widening audience for learning and medical “secrets.” Faye Marie Getz provides a critical edition of the Middle English text, with an extensive introduction to the learned, practical, and social components of medieval medicine and a summary of the text in modern English. Getz also draws on both the Latin and Middle English texts to create an extensive glossary of little-known Middle English pharmaceutical and medical vocabulary. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Faye Marie GetzPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.400kg ISBN: 9780299129347ISBN 10: 0299129349 Pages: 456 Publication Date: 30 December 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback 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 ContentsReviews<p> [This] edition places in our hands a medical book that looks two ways: toward the massive Latin compilation of Gilbertus, whose rhetoric of medicine comes through surprisingly unfiltered, and toward the 'practices' of medicine mediated in English during the fifteenth-century. --Lea Olsan, Studies in the Age of Chaucer [This] edition places in our hands a medical book that looks two ways: toward the massive Latin compilation of Gilbertus, whose rhetoric of medicine comes through surprisingly unfiltered, and toward the 'practices' of medicine mediated in English during the fifteenth-century. --Lea Olsan, Studies in the Age of Chaucer [This] edition places in our hands a medical book that looks two ways: toward the massive Latin compilation of Gilbertus, whose rhetoric of medicine comes through surprisingly unfiltered, and toward the 'practices' of medicine mediated in English during the fifteenth-century. --Lea Olsan, Studies in the Age of Chaucer Author InformationFaye Marie Getz lives in Norfolk, England, and has honorary academic appointments in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. She appeared as a medieval physician in Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, an Emmy-nominated BBC documentary. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |