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Fictions of Well-Being: Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Fictions of WellBeing Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Author: Michael Solomon
From the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries in Spain, health-related information in the vernacular began to circulate widely in treatises, compendiums, manuals, plague tracts, summaries, encyclopedias, and recipe collections. These were often the work of concerned physicians who attempted to refashion medical information to appeal to non...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812242553
ISBN-10: 0812242556
Publication Date: 6/10/2010
Pages: 200
Edition: Bilingual
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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