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