Medicine and Nonsense in French Renaissance Mock Prescriptions

This article analyzes nonsensical mock prescriptions, especially from sixteenth-and early seventeenth-century France, situating these in a context of both medical and literary history. Mock prescriptions shed light on the writing and performance of nonsense, in particular in their use of the adynato...

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Main Author: Roberts, Hugh (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2009
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2009, Volume: 40, Issue: 3, Pages: 721-744
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