No description available.

Thesis--Würzburg. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-184).

Thesis (M.A.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-103). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universite de Reims, 1998. / "Année 1998." Title from Summary page ; description based on resource as of 2005-06-17. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Würzburg. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-101) and index.

Thesis--Würzburg. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-184).

Thesis--Würzburg. / Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-101).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1938. / Vita. "Corrections" leaf inserted facing p. 27. Author's name is incorrectly spelled Gaulterus, due to faulty copying of the title of Diepgen's edition of his "Summa medicinalis." Photoprinted. Irish and English on opposite pages. On half-title: Translated into Irish by Cormac MacDuinnthshlebi. "Abbreviations": p. 17-19; Bibliography: p. 181-183.

This thesis interprets The Book of Margery Kempe using a medieval medical approach. Through an interdisciplinary methodology based on a medical humanities framework, the thesis explores the significance of Kempe’s painful experiences through a broad survey of the human life cycle, as understood in medieval culture. In exploring the interplay of humoral theory, medical texts, religious instruction and life cycle taxonomies, it illustrates the porousness of medicine and religion in the Middle Ages and the symbiotic relationship between spiritual and corporeal health. In an age when the circulation of medical texts in the English vernacular was increasing, scholastic medicine not only infiltrated religious houses but also translated into lay praxis. Ideas about the moral and physical nature of the human body were thus inextricably linked, based on the popular tradition of Christus medicus. For this reason, the thesis argues that Margery Kempe’s pain, experience and controversial performances amongst her euen-cristen were interpreted in physiological and medical terms by her onlookers, as ‘pain-interpreters’. It also offers a new transcription of the recipe from B.L. Add. MS 61823, f.124v, and argues for its importance as a way of reading the text as an ‘illness narrative’ which depicts Margery Kempe’s spiritual journey from sickness to health. The chapters examine Kempe’s humoral constitution and predisposition to mystical perceptivity, her crying, her childbearing and married years, her menopausal middle age of surrogate reproductivity, and her elderly life stage. Medical texts such as the Trotula, the Sekenesse of Wymmen and the Liber Diversis Medicinis help to shed light on the ways in which medieval women’s bodies were understood. The thesis concludes that, via a ‘pain surrogacy’ hermeneutic, Kempe is brought closer to a knowledge of pain which is transformational, just as she transforms through the stages of the life cycle.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Philosophy, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-177).