Lanfranc of Milan is one of the most influential medieval surgeons and his Latin works informed surgical practice until the seventeenth century. Both his Chirurgia parva and Chirurgia magna were repeatedly translated into vernacular languages and contributed to the dissemination of surgical knowledge throughout late medieval Europe.Addressing a public of scholars and graduate students in the fields of philology, historical linguistics and history of medicine, this volume aims at analyzing in depth some key-aspects of the Romance and the Germanic translations of Lanfranc's works from both a philological and lexical perspective. In this, it focuses on some relevant questions concerning the aim of these vernacular versions, their authors, and their intended audience. Including contributions by experts in the field in both the Romance and the Germanic areas, this volume enhances a comparative approach toward the study of the development of a vernacular surgical tradition.
Chiara Benati is Full Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Genoa, Italy. She has published on High and Low German surgical texts and their terminology, on Germanic charms and blessings, as well as on medieval German and Scandinavian glossaries. She is currently coordinating a two-year research project funded by the European Union NextGeneration EU aimed at realizing the first critical edition of the German translation (and a new critical edition of the English version) of Lanfranc of Milan's Chirurgia magna.Marialuisa Caparrini is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Ferrara, Italy. She has published on High and Middle Low German grammatical, culinary, and medical texts and their terminology. In 2012, she received the award in memory of Piergiuseppe Scardigli for her book on the German version of the Epistula Anthimi. Currently, her main research interest focuses on the Middle English version of Lanfranc's Chirurgia magna (European Union NextGeneration EU).
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