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SPELL : Swiss papers in English language and literature

Band 28 (2013)
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Preface: General editor's preface _
Article: Introduction _
Article: The paradoxes of early modern laughter : Laurent Joubert's Traité du ris 19
Article: Mariners, Maps, and Metaphors : Lucas Waghenaer and the poetics of navigation 33
Article: Between astronomy and astrology : Chaucer's "Treatise on the astrolabe" and the measurement of time in late-medieval England 49
Article: Blame it on the elves : perception of illness in anglo-saxon England 67
Article: The languages of medical writing in medieval England 79
Article: Emotion and the ideal reader in middle English gynaecological texts 103
Article: Medicine, passion and sin in Gower 117
Article: Syphilis or melancholy? : Desire as disease in Spenser's The faerie queene (1590) 131
Article: "Is't Lunacy to call a spade, a spade?" : James Carkesse and the forgotten language of madness 143
Article: Post-mortem care of the soul : Mechthild of Hackeborn's The booke of gostlye grace 157
Article: Spiritual healing : healing miracles associated with the twelfth-century northern cult of St Cuthbert 171
Article: Staging childbirth : medical and popular discourses of delivery and midwifery in the medieval English mystery plays 187
Article: "We sit in the chaire of pestilence" : the discourse of disease in the anti-theatrical pamphlets, 1570s-1630s 207
Article: Diagnosing the body politic : Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part Two 223
Rubric: Notes on contributors 245
Index: Index of names 251
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