Healing and Society in Medieval England: A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of Gilbertus Anglicus Volume 8

By Faye Marie Getz and Faya M. Gatz

Originally 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299129306
• ISBN13: 9780299129309
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.4"