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The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature, PDF eBook

The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature PDF

Part of the The New Middle Ages series

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Jeremy 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.

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