Concurrent Publication of Medical Works in Neo-Latin and French in Early Modern France

Abstract

"In this essay, I propose first to review general trends in the composition, publication and circulation of translations of medical works from Latin/neo-Latin into French and from French into neo-Latin in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and then to address the specific question of why some works composed in this period in one particular area of medicine, namely reproductive medicine and women’s health, circulated concurrently in both languages, and how far this reflected their movement between different reading communities."