Title:

Between medicine and literature: Paratexts of Latin treatises on the Polish plait as a sign of Renaissance erudition

Subtitle:

Analecta: Studies and Materials for the History of Science

Creator:

Milewska-Waźbińska, Barbara

Institutional creator:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2020

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Location:

Biblioteka Instytutu Historii Nauki PAN

Subject and Keywords:

history of medicine ; Polish plait ; paratext ; Renaissance culture

Abstract:

The article deals with issues related to the cultural phenomenon of an ailment called a Polish plait (plica Polonica). The article is devoted to the first stage of interest in this disease in Europe in the 17th century. The main subject of interest is the extensive treatise “De plica quam Poloni gwozdziec, Roxolani kołtunum vocant liber”, whose author was a well-known professor of medicine from Padua, Ercole Sassonia (Hercules Saxonia). Literary texts written in Latin also indicate that medical treatises were addressed to recipients who represented similar interests and education.

Relation:

Analecta : studia i materiały z dziejów nauki polskiej

Volume:

29 (2020)

Issue:

2

Start page:

115

End page:

126

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

1509-0957

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, full text available at:

Original in:

Biblioteka Instytutu Historii Nauki PAN

Access:

Open