TY - GEN digital ID - 131559560 TI - Civic and medical worlds in Early Modern England : performing barbery and surgery PY - 2016 SN - 9781137471567 9781137471550 9781137471574 PB - Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) KW - English literature KW - Literature KW - History KW - History of the United Kingdom and Ireland KW - History of Eastern Europe KW - akoestiek KW - wetenschapsgeschiedenis KW - geschiedenis KW - literatuur KW - Europese geschiedenis KW - Renaissance KW - Engelse literatuur KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - England KW - Great Britain KW - Ireland KW - History of human medicine KW - Thematology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131559560 AB - Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England. Focusing on the prolific figures of the barber, surgeon and barber-surgeon, the author explores what it meant to the early modern population for a group of practitioners to be associated with both the trade guilds and an emerging professional medical world. The book uncovers the differences and cross-pollinations between barbers and surgeons' practices which play out across the literature: we learn not only about their cultural, civic, medical and occupational histories but also about how we should interpret patterns in language, name choice, performance, materiality, acoustics and semiology in the period. The investigations prompt new readings of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Beaumont, among others. And with chapters delving into early modern representations of medical instruments, hairiness, bloodletting procedures, waxy or infected ears, wart removals and skeletons, readers will find much of the contribution of this book is in its detail, which brings its subject to life. ER -