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Materia Medica
Elena Del Rio Parra
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Description for Materia Medica
Paperback. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; MB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Materia médica exploresthe intersection of the sciences and humanities in Spanish sixteenth-and seventeenthcentury representations of the extraordinary within the larger scheme of the Baroque. Medical and chirurgicaltreatises, discourses, letters, broadsheets, and paratexts of the period share with the humanities thought processes,methods, patterns, and—most importantly—some forms of description. Archival evidence broadens the spectrum ofthese texts, and cases are frequently compared to similar instances in disciplines such as theology, literature, andthe law.
Materia médica maps, among other notions, the imagination, the spectacular, the legendary, and the “novelesque” in scientific writing and examines the influence of the theatrical in representations of medical ... Read more
Materia médica exploresthe intersection of the sciences and humanities in Spanish sixteenth-and seventeenthcentury representations of the extraordinary within the larger scheme of the Baroque. Medical and chirurgicaltreatises, discourses, letters, broadsheets, and paratexts of the period share with the humanities thought processes,methods, patterns, and—most importantly—some forms of description. Archival evidence broadens the spectrum ofthese texts, and cases are frequently compared to similar instances in disciplines such as theology, literature, andthe law.
Materia médica maps, among other notions, the imagination, the spectacular, the legendary, and the “novelesque” in scientific writing and examines the influence of the theatrical in representations of medical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Language
Spanish
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469626178
SKU
V9781469626178
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About Elena Del Rio Parra
Elena del Río Parra is professor in the Department ofModern and Classical Languages at Georgia State University.
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