Fictions of Well–Being – Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late …

Fictions of Well-BeingSickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain\nAuthor(s): Michael Solomon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812242553, 978-0812242553\nSynopsis\nFrom the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries in Spain, health-related information in the vernacular began to circulate widely in treatises, compendiums, manuals, plague tracts, summaries, encyclopedias, and recipe collections. These were often the work of concerned physicians who attempted to refashion medical information to appeal to nonprofessionals. In Fictions of Well-Being Michael Solomon explores the shaping of this audience of sickly readers, highly motivated individuals who, when confronted with the painful, disruptive, and often alienating conditions of physical disorder, looked for relief in books.\n Vernacular medical writing from late medieval and early modern Sp.