23.3206, Diss: Historical Linguistics: Litzler: 'A Corpus of Middle English Medical Prologues in the Sloane Collection of the British Library...'

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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:10:43
From: Mary Litzler [litzmf at gmail.com]
Subject: A Corpus of Middle English Medical Prologues in the Sloane Collection of the British Library: An introduction to the genre in prose

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Institution: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 
Program: Interdisciplinary studies in language, culture, translation and classical tradition 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2011 

Author: Mary Frances Litzler

Dissertation Title: A Corpus of Middle English Medical Prologues in the Sloane
Collection of the British Library: An introduction to the
genre in prose 

Dissertation URL:  http://acceda.ulpgc.es/handle/10553/6294

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Francisco Alonso-Almeida

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation has two objectives. The first is to provide a corpus of 
transcriptions of the unpublished prologues to medical texts written or 
copied in the 15th century found to exist in the Sloane collection of the 
British Library. The second is to provide an introduction to the corpus  
including information on the manuscripts in which they are found and 
the contents of the prologues themselves. All of this is done with a view 
towards determining trends that might exist in the genre of medical 
prologues from this time period. 

A total of 56 previously unedited prologues to medical texts from 15th 
century manuscripts are included in the final corpus. An additional 9 
prologues from the Sloane collection which had already been edited 
and published in academic publications were also considered in the 
analysis section. The corpus is divided into six different groups 
according to the area of medicine covered in accompanying text in 
order to facilitate analysis of the contents in the prologues. The groups 
are surgery texts, plague texts, urine and uroscopy texts, texts with 
remedies, texts on regimen of health and texts on the ancillary areas of 
medicine such as astrology. 

There are seven chapters to the dissertation. After an initial 
introduction, there is a chapter that reviews medieval prologue studies, 
an introduction to medieval medical text research, a description of the 
corpus including the manuscripts, the transcriptions themselves, a 
discussion and a conclusion. In addition, a glossary and notes can be 
found in the appendices. 






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