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| Datum: | 2006 |
| Titel: | Between Herbals et alia: Intertextuality in Medieval English Herbals |
| Mitwirkende: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Autor*in: | Martti Mäkinen |
| Beschreibung: | This study reports a corpus-based study of medieval English herbals, which are texts conveying information on medicinal plants. Herbals belong to the medieval medical register. The study charts intertextual parallels within the medieval genre, and between herbals and other contemporary medical texts. It seeks to answer questions where and how herbal texts are linked to each other, and to other medical writing. The theoretical framework of the study draws on intertextuality and genre studies, manuscript studies, corpus linguistics, and multi-dimensional text analysis. The method combines qualitative and quantitative analyses of textual material from three historical special-language corpora of Middle and Early Modern English, one of which was compiled for the purposes of this study. The text material contains over 800,000 words of medical texts. The time span of the material is from c. 1330 to 1550. Text material is retrieved from the corpora by using plant-name lists as search criteria. The raw data is filtered through qualitative |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/81764 |
| Quelle: | http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/engla/vk/makinen/betweenh.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.129.3177 |
| AMAD ID: | 568075 |
| Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
