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Joubert, Laurent

 
9780817354152: The Second Part of the Popular Errors
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ISBN 10: 0817354158 ISBN 13: 9780817354152
Editorial: University Alabama Press, 2007

Sinopsis

English translation of the second volume of Laurent Joubert’s 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires

Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek and Latin writers that French doctors followed uncritically.

Gregory de Rocher’s skill as a translator brings this highly readable and very funny book to life. Many topics central to Joubert’s thesis in the 1500s remain contemporary themes in the popular and scholarly literature of the 1980s.

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Acerca del autor

Gregory David de Rocher is Professor of Romance Languages and Classics, The University of Alabama

De la contraportada

Laurent Joubert (1529-1582) was a prominent physician in Renaissance France. Joubert was an educator as well as a physician, and one of his primary goals was to dispel the rampant misinformation associated with health care and caregivers of his day. The Second Part of the Popular Errors was to have been devoted exclusively to the discussion of a popular health regimen in the areas of personal conduct, the maintenance of one's surroundings, dress habits, and diet. Fortunately for us, Joubert included in The Second Part many topics intended for the balance of the original plan of thirty books. Thus, though with perhaps only a suggestion of what the treatment would have been had Joubert been able to bring his project to completion, we now have in The Second Part his main ideas concerning complexion, air and clothes, appetite and thirst, along with meals and digestion, the preparation and order of food, the importance of beverages, and, surprisingly, the problematic nature of wine in the diet. Food is again addressed in a section on the proper use of food during illness, followed by the importance of sleep. The only topic not covered is the one that came to interrupt Joubert's progress in 1582: death.

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Editorial
University Alabama Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0817354158
ISBN 13 
9780817354152
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
332
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ISBN 10:  0817307583 ISBN 13:  9780817307585
Editorial: The University of Alabama Press, 1995
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