The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Citrome, Jeremy J. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
• Σειρά: The New Middle Ages
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Europe > History—476-1492.; Classical literature.; Literature, Medieval.; Medicine > History.; Medicine & Public Health.; History of Medicine.; History of Medieval Europe.; Medieval Literature.; Classical and Antique Literature.

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical writings are among the texts discussed in this wid...