Bettina Noak – författare

Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit dem exemplarischen Thema des Wissenstransfers und des Umgangs mit Autoritäten in der frühneuzeitlichen niederländischsprachigen Literatur. Er bietet eine breite Übersicht möglicher Felder des Wissenswandels auf dem Gebiet der kolonialen Literatur, der Entstehung naturwissenschaftlicher Texte, literarischer Netzwerke sowie theologischer und politischer Schriften. Die Autoren untersuchen den Gebrauch klassischer und/oder zeitgenössischer Quellen und damit die Entstehung und Veränderung der Auctoritas sowie die Bedeutung dieser Entwicklungen für den frühneuzeitlichen Wissensdiskurs. Thematische Schwerpunkte sind dabei die Konzepte des Spiels, des Wunders, der Konversion und der Imitation.

From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine. The first book of Homer''s Ilias recounts the plague that swept the camp of the Achaeans. While this instance concerns a full-length book, it is the aphorism that is of greater importance as a literary technique for the dissemination of medical knowledge, from the "Corpus Hippocraticum" of antiquity until the "Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis" (1715) by Herman Boerhaave. In addition, the subject of illness and its impact on mankind was explored by great numbers of poetic scholars and scholarly poets.This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails a first-ever overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus.

From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine. The first book of Homer’s Ilias recounts the plague that swept the camp of the Achaeans. While this instance concerns a full-length book, it is the aphorism that is of greater importance as a literary technique for the dissemination of medical knowledge, from the “Corpus Hippocraticum” of antiquity until the “Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis” (1715) by Herman Boerhaave. In addition, the subject of illness and its impact on mankind was explored by great numbers of poetic scholars and scholarly poets.This collection offers fourteen articles which all highlight the relation between disease and literature. It entails a first-ever overview of Dutch-language research in this field, whereby the literary and cultural functions of medical knowledge and the poetics of medical and literary writing are in the focus.