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Jeremy
Citrome.
The
Surgeon in Medieval English Literature.
Palgrave,
December 2005.
The
New Middle Ages series.
ISBN
1403968462.
Hardback.
138mm x
216mm.
256pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £40.00
The medieval English
surgeon was subject to a huge variety of cultural perceptions, ranging
from that of pitiless butcher to sanctified healer. The bloody craft of
surgery served as a uniquely encompassing metaphor for later medieval
Christian identity, as defined by the urgent struggle between damnation
and salvation articulated so vividly in Middle English poetry and
prose. 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 wide-ranging study.
Contents
PART ONE: MEDICINE AS METAPHOR
Introduction: Medieval Surgery and the Social Power of Metaphor
The Wounds of Sin
PART TWO: DAMNATION AND SALVATION
Surgery as Damnation: Cleanness
Surgery as Salvation: The Siege of Jerusalem
PART THREE: SURGERY AND SELFHOOD
Surgery and the Surgeon: The Practica of John Arderne
Surgery and the Priest: The Penitential Poetry of John Audelay
Surgery and the Secular Reader: "Betere is hire medycyn"
Conclusion: Whole and Sound?
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