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Author | : Diana Luft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9781786835482 |
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To read Medieval Welsh Medical Texts for free please visit https: //www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/MWMT_final_low-res-2.pdf This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of the corpus of medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. These offer practical treatments for a variety of everyday conditions such as toothache, constipation and gout. The recipes have been edited from the four earliest collections of Welsh medical texts in manuscript, which date from the late fourteenth century. A series of notes provides sources and analogues for the recipes, demonstrating their relationship with the European medical tradition. The identification of herbal ingredients in the recipes is based on pre-modern plant-name glossaries rather than modern dictionaries, and has led to new interpretations of many of the recipes. Comprehensive glossaries allow the reader to find any recipe based on the ingredients and equipment used in it or the condition treated. This new interpretation of these texts clearly shows that they are not unique, but rather form part of the medical tradition that was common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.
Author | : Patrick K. Ford |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0520974662 |
Download The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is a literary achievement of the highest order.
Author | : Ruth Evans |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802086372 |
Download Medieval Virginities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.
Author | : Diana Luft |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2020-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786835495 |
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OPEN ACCESS To view Medieval Welsh Medical Texts for free click on the following links: https://www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/MWMT_final_low-res-1.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK558253/ This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of the corpus of medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. These offer practical treatments for a variety of everyday conditions such as toothache, constipation and gout. The recipes have been edited from the four earliest collections of Welsh medical texts in manuscript, which date from the late fourteenth century. A series of notes provides sources and analogues for the recipes, demonstrating their relationship with the European medical tradition. The identification of herbal ingredients in the recipes is based on pre-modern plant-name glossaries rather than modern dictionaries, and has led to new interpretations of many of the recipes. Comprehensive glossaries allow the reader to find any recipe based on the ingredients and equipment used in it or the condition treated. This new interpretation of these texts clearly shows that they are not unique, but rather form part of the medical tradition that was common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.
Author | : Natalia I. Petrovskaia |
Publisher | : MHRA |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2020-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 178188949X |
Download Delw y Byd: A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edition presents extracts from the medieval Welsh encyclopedia Delw y Byd. A medieval Welsh translation of the first book of the Latin encyclopedia known as Imago Mundi, written by Honorius Augustodunensis in the first quarter of the twelfth century, this text is a fine example of the ties between the intellectual world of Europe and Wales in the late-twelfth/early-thirteenth centuries, when the text was translated, ties that brought across the scientific knowledge based on Roman and late antique sources. Structured according to the four elements: earth, water, air and fire, the text presents geographical, anthropological, and astronomical information, often with historical and mythological contexts. The present edition follows that organizational principle, providing a glimpse into the medieval understanding of the overarching structure of the universe. The text is presented in its historical and literary context, with an updated account of its transmission. A commentary on the scientific context of the most interesting passages is provided, as well as a linguistic one. The edition also provides an overview of the variants by printing parallel texts based on all surviving medieval manuscript witnesses for a number of selected chapters. This includes sections of two previously unpublished medieval witnesses of the text. The accompanying glossary includes vocabulary from all extracts included in the edition.
Author | : Harold Selcon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781980779704 |
Download The Physicians of Myddfai Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a fascinating 21st century account of Myddfai and a family of Welsh physicians who, according to mythology, had acquired their skills magically. The mythical elements go back into prehistory but the Physicians of Myddfai were real doctors who chose to write their own medical textbook in Welsh at a time when Latin was the established language of learning. Their book acknowledging Greek, Roman and Arab medical literature shows the breadth of culture in Wales at this time. Their words were preserved in Welsh manuscripts together with tales of magic and romance and might have died with them but centuries later were translated into English by a titled Englishwoman, Lady Charlotte Guest. This brought Welsh medieval culture to a wider English audience including Tennyson and her translation of the Mabinogion was an inspiration and source for his Idylls of the Kings. Another of the contributors to the record of the Physician's work was Iolo Morganwg, whose many contributions to Welsh culture were denigrated by some scholars in the 20th century as forgery. As he is the man who gave to Wales its cultural highlight, the National Eisteddfod he cannot be ignored so he too is considered in some detail in a separate chapter.This book goes much further than a mere retelling of ancient medical skills and remedies but details the status and regulation of doctors or mediciners first laid down in the 10th century Laws of Hywel Dda and the ongoing mayhem in Wales - the infighting between the Welsh Princes and the battles for Welsh independence against the Norman and English kings. It also considers the nature of the therapeutic properties of the herbal medicines used by the Physicians as revealed by modern analysis and pays a tribute to the community spirit of present day Myddfai , stiill strong and welcoming although at present (in 2018) without even one resident NHS physician!
Author | : Laura R. Kremmel |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2022-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786838508 |
Download Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.
Author | : Malcolm Laurence Cameron |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1993-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521405211 |
Download Anglo-Saxon Medicine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first book to study Old English medical texts.
Author | : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783163739 |
Download Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines how Wilkie Collins’s interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the prototypical Gothic scenario. The aristocratic villains, victimized maidens and medieval castles of classic Gothic tales were reworked and adapted to thrill his Victorian readership. With the advances of neuroscience and the development of criminology as a significant backdrop to most of his novels, Collins drew upon contemporary anxieties and increasingly used the medical to propel his criminal plots. While the prototypical castles were turned into modern medical institutions, his heroines no longer feared ghosts but the scientist’s knife. This study hence underlines the way in which Collins’s Gothic revisions increasingly tackled medical questions, using the medical terrain to capitalize on the readers’ fears. It also demonstrates how Wilkie Collins’s fiction reworks Gothic themes and presents them through the prism of contemporary scientific, medical and psychological discourses, from debates revolving around mental physiology to those dealing with heredity and transmission. The book’s structure is chronological covering a selection of texts in each chapter, with a balance between discussion of the more canonical of Collins’s texts such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale and some of his more neglected writings.
Author | : Peter Ho Davies |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547524900 |
Download The Welsh Girl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A WWII-era Welsh barmaid begins a secret relationship with a German POW in this “beautiful” novel by the author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Ann Patchett). Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, this critically acclaimed debut novel traces the intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a prisoner-of-war camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when an astonishing thing occurs: A young German corporal calls out to her from behind the fence. From that moment on, the two begin an unlikely—and perilous—romance. Meanwhile, a German-Jewish interrogator travels to Wales to investigate Britain’s most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess. In this richly drawn and thought-provoking “tour de force,” all will come to question the meaning of love, family, loyalty, and national identity (The New Yorker). “If you loved The English Patient, there’s probably a place in your heart for The Welsh Girl.” —USA Today “Davies’s characters are marvelously nuanced.” —Los Angeles Times “Beautifully conjures a place and its people, in an extraordinary time . . . A rare gem.” —Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs “This first novel by Davies, author of two highly praised short story collections, has been anticipated—and, with its wonderfully drawn characters, it has been worth the wait.” —Booklist, starred review