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Medical Analogy in Latin Satire
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Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an introduction to medical issues in the tradition of Latin satire. The bookexplores what functions physical diseases and peculiarities had in early modern satires and how satire was considered as a form of healing instruction.
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MedicineTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Medicine for the Sick Soul
- 2 Medical Meta-language: Renaissance Commentaries and Poetics on the Healing Nature of Satire
- 3 Painfully Happy: Satirical Disease Eulogies and the Good Life
- 4 Wonderfully Unaware: Sensory Disabilities, Contemplation and Consolation
- 5 Outlook and Virtue: Morally Symptomatic Physical Peculiarities
- 6 Satire as Therapy
- Appendix: The Anthologies Used in This Study
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index