Medecine et rhetorique a la Renaissance

Le cas du traite de peste en langue vernaculaire

by Veronique Montagne

Book cover: Medecine et rhetorique a la Renaissance

Extent: 443 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Language & Linguistics, Medicine

Series: Bibliotheque de la Renaissance

Series volume number: 17

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9782406060253

9.45 x 6.3 inches

Price: $74.00

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Hardback (Published)

(September 2017)

ISBN: 9782406060260

9.45 x 6.14 inches

Price: $136.00

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During the Renaissance, many doctors, surgeons, and apothecaries wrote treatises on the plague that employ vernacular language. Their writing is characterized by the widespread use of figures. This work describes these figures, situating them in their rhetorical-dialectical context.

  • By (author) Veronique Montagne