The Art of Medicina: Popular Medicine and Popular Literature in Late Medieval and Shakespearean England

我的计划将分析流行医学知识的发展，在中世纪文艺复兴后期的英国，通过调查其在流行文学的代表。我的研究范围从中世纪的浪漫和戏剧（晚C14），通常被理解为莎士比亚（库珀，2010年）的影响莎士比亚的戏剧（晚C16）。论文分为两个领域的治疗，手术和魔术，这是在中世纪和早期现代文学（沃利斯，2010年）的代表。该项目调查了中世纪文艺复兴时期医学思想的文学表现如何影响对人体及其相对健康状况的看法，通过对医疗条件和治疗方法的解释。大众医学是指中世纪大学和其他机构之外使用的医学知识的简化模型，用英语或盎格鲁-诺曼语编写或编辑（沃利斯，2010）。通俗文学描述的是以广泛的世俗观众为对象的书面、戏剧或口头娱乐（汉娜，2005年）。我的前两章将探讨侵入性和操纵性手术的代表性的影响（借鉴亨特的区别，1992年）对医学化的中世纪表示的十字架上的韦克菲尔德/切斯特神秘发挥，与他们后来在莎士比亚的李尔王，科里奥兰纳斯和泰特斯安德罗尼库斯的身体肢解描绘。我的第三和第四章将探讨魔法（草药和魅力），由中世纪社会的非正式从业者雇用（由桑德斯定义，2010）。这些在中世纪的浪漫故事中有代表性，如瓦伦丁和奥森，Yellow和Gawain，Palerne的威廉，同样的流行背景也出现在莎士比亚的《爱的徒劳》，《仲夏夜之梦》和《Macbet》中。我将把这些材料与视觉文化中代表的流行医学（医学missizies和魅力收藏）联系起来。

My proposed project will analyse the development of popular medical knowledge in late medievalrenaissance England, through the investigation of its representation in popular literature. The scope of my research extends from medieval romance and drama (late C14th), commonly understood as influences on Shakespeare (Cooper, 2010) to the plays of Shakespeare (late C16th). The thesis is divided into two areas of treatment, surgery and magic, which were represented in medieval and early modern literature (Wallis, 2010). The project investigates how the literary representation of medieval-renaissance medical ideas influenced perceptions of the human body and its relative state of health, through depictions of medical conditions and therapies. Popular medicine refers to simplified models of medical knowledge used outside the medieval university and other institutions, composed or compiled in English or Anglo-Norman (Wallis, 2010). Popular literature describes written, theatrical, or oral entertainment aimed at a broadly secular audience (Hanna, 2005).My first two chapters will explore the influence of representations of invasive and manipulative surgery (drawing on Hunt's distinction, 1992) on medicalised medieval representations of the crucifixion in the Wakefield/Chester mystery plays, alongside their later depiction in the bodily mutilations of Shakespeare's King Lear, Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus. My third and fourth chapters will explore magic (herbalism and charms), employed by informal practitioners within medieval society (defined by Saunders, 2010). These are represented in medieval romances, such as Valentine and Orson, Ywain and Gawain, William of Palerne, and the same popular context is present in Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbet. I will contextualise this material with popular medicine represented in visual culture (medical miscellanies and collections of charms).