Medical texts in 1500–1700 and the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts

Taavitsainen, Irma; Jones, Peter Murray; Pahta, Päivi; Hiltunen, Turo; Marttila, Ville; Ratia, Maura; Suhr, Carla; Tyrkkö, Jukka

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“…1473 and 1700 from EEBO TCP was all included in the vocabulary database, in light of the fact that there are fewer texts surviving from the more distant past 4 . The EEBO TCP word material was then integrated with vocabulary within the same date range from the Corpus of English Dialogues (Culpeper & Kytö 2006), the Early Modern English Medical Texts (Taavitsainen et al 2010), the Lampeter Corpus (Schmied et al 1994), the Newsbooks Corpus (McEnery & Hardie 2007) and Shakespeare's First Folio . All of these corpora contain texts with reliable EModE spelling, with only rare exceptions which were addressed systematically.…”

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Positional spelling redistribution: word-initial /<v> and /<j> in Early Modern English (1500–1700)

Condorelli¹

2020

English Language and Linguistics

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The alternations in /<v> and /<j> are among the most well-known and commented-upon changes in Early Modern English spellings, yet little has been said about the potential factors underlying their standardisation, and whether and how the two alternant pairs could be linked together. The reason behind this knowledge gap may be found in the absence of a large-scale, quantitative investigation of these spellings, and consequently, the impossibility of commenting upon the relationship between patterns of chronological development and potential causes of change. This article focuses on the standardisation of word-initial /<v> and /<j> between 1500 and 1700 in printed English, and uses a quantitative model for the analysis of patterns of diachronic development in the two alternant pairs, across a range of texts from a sampled version of Early English Books Online. The results describe a rather abrupt, synchronised change in the redistribution of word-initial /<v> and /<j> between the 1620s and the 1640s. The discussion argues for a close connection between the diachronic developments in word-initial /<v> and /<j>, and pragmatic factors that affected the Early Modern English printing industry.

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Positional spelling redistribution: word-initial /<v> and /<j> in Early Modern English (1500–1700)

Condorelli¹

2020

English Language and Linguistics

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“…Printed materials discussing medicine and the body flourished from the mid-sixteenth century. 49 From costly folios to cheap palm-sized editions, books were available in a way that they had not been before. In the sixteenth century the publication of materials was regulated by the London Company of Stationers, chartered in 1557.…”

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Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England

Evans

2023

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How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on medical sources and personal testimonies, it reveals how men responded to bouts of ill health and their relationships with the medical practitioners tasked with curing them. In doing so, this study restores men’s health to medical histories of reproduction, demonstrating how men’s sexual self-identity was tied to their health. Charting genitourinary conditions across the life cycle, the book illustrates how fertility and potency were key to medical understandings of men’s health. Men utilized networks of care to help them with ostensibly embarrassing and shameful conditions like hernias, venereal disease, bladder stones, and testicular injuries. The book thus offers a historical voice to modern calls for men to be alert to, and open about, their own bodily health.

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“…Pahta et al, 2011), but the introduction of corpora like MCEMESP facilitates these new investigations. Details of individual texts in the two corpora can be found in the respective manuals of the corpora (Taavitsainen et al, 2011 and https://modernmss.uma.es/Corpus).…”

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Early Modern Medicine in Manuscript and Print

Tyrkkö

2020

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The standardisation process of English spelling largely came to its conclusion during the Early Modern period. While the progress of standardisation has been studied in both printed and manuscript texts, few studies have looked at these processes side by side, especially focusing on the same genre of writing and by using corpora that are sufficiently large for quantitative comparison. Using two Early Modern medical corpora, one based on manuscripts and the other on printed sources, this paper compares the trajectories of spelling standardisation in the two textual domains and shows that while spelling standardisation progressed in an almost linear fashion in printed texts, the manuscripts reveal a much more varied and shallow cline toward standardisation.

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Medical texts in 1500–1700 and the corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts

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Positional spelling redistribution: word-initial <u>/<v> and <i>/<j> in Early Modern English (1500–1700)

Positional spelling redistribution: word-initial <u>/<v> and <i>/<j> in Early Modern English (1500–1700)

Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England

Early Modern Medicine in Manuscript and Print

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