The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain : The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the preacher and the physician; Part I. Disease and the Medieval Clinic: 1. Disease, discourse, and illness: the structure of healing in late medieval Spain; 2. Sexual pathology and the etiology of lovesickness; Part II. The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill: 3. The poetics of infection; 4. The poetics of the compendium and the conditions of the clinic; 5. The tortured body and the abjectified voice: additional therapeutic strategies; Part III. The Triumph of the Clinic: 6. Women, the power to disease and the fictions of the counter-clinic; Notes; Works cited; Index.