Articles by Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas
EPOS.Revista de filología, 2024
James Douglas, a prominent Scottish physician, is renowned for his anatomical discoveries, partic... more James Douglas, a prominent Scottish physician, is renowned for his anatomical discoveries, particularly the pouch of Douglas. Beyond anatomy, Douglas made significant contributions to botany, including a monograph on the history of chocolate, now housed in the Glasgow University Library. His interest in chocolate, alongside other plants, reflects his broad scientific curiosity. Manuscript Hunter 560, meticulously detailed and hitherto unexplored, offers valuable insights into the cultural and scientific perspectives on chocolate in the eighteenth century. The aim of this article is, therefore, to present the contents of James Douglas's The History of Chocolate and to vindicate his figure as a botanist and multifaceted man in the field of the eighteenth-century science. KEYWORDS: chocolate; James Douglas; Glasgow University Library; Hunter MS 560, Hunter MS D425 Edinburgh, with his exact date of birth unknown; the earliest record we have is of his baptism on 21 March 1675. He was the second son of William Douglas, who married Joan, daughter of James Mason of Park of Blantyre, in 1664. Together, they had twelve children, three of whom-James, George, and Jonah-went on to become physicians. According to Brock,
Atlantis, 2023
The presence of English as a global language in the lexicon of the languages of Europe is undenia... more The presence of English as a global language in the lexicon of the languages of Europe is undeniable, Spanish being no exception to this general trend. The increasing impact of English on the European Spanish word-stock is evidenced by semantic and lexical borrowings. The aim of the present article is to study such semantic and lexical borrowings from English into European Spanish. In order to carry out the research, examples were retrieved from the sub-corpora of tourism and fashion, both part of the ANGLICOR corpus and its associated database. Following identification, the examples were analyzed qualitatively following Gómez Capuz's classification (2004). The results of this analysis reveal, on the one hand, the fact that semantic borrowings may belong to the category of adjectives as well as the category of nouns. In the case of lexical borrowings, on the other hand, only nouns or noun groups, following various patterns, were recorded.
RCEI, 2023
This article delves into Early Modern English 1 manuscript domestic medicine with special attenti... more This article delves into Early Modern English 1 manuscript domestic medicine with special attention to a recipe compilation, Glasgow, University Library, Ferguson MS 43. Household recipe books were an important repository of practical medical knowledge for families. Recipe collections were often brought by women to their new households upon marriage, and were subsequently passed down through generations, highlighting the significant role that women played in the production and dissemination of household practical knowledge. Ferguson MS 43, attributed to Lady Stanhope, showcases the female recipe collections' ability to provide valuable information regarding eighteenth-century domestic medical practice and, more specifically, women's contribution to it. The manuscript physical characteristics and its contents are analysed to place the text in its proper social, cultural and linguistic context as a representative instance of the recipe genre. Keywords: GUL, Ferguson MS 43, medical recipes, women scientific writing, household medicine. * This research is part of the Spanish Government project entitled "Interpersonal devices in specialized household and public instructional texts written by women in Modern English" (Ref. PID2021-125928NB-100). 1 Following Lass (1999), the dates for the Early Modern English in this article are 1476 to 1776.
Encuentro Journal , 2022
The present article reports on a study carried out with Primary Education students over a period ... more The present article reports on a study carried out with Primary Education students over a period of two consecutive years at a Bilingual state school in the Madrid Autonomous Community with a brief extension study in the third year. Our hypothesis was that the introduction of music in a CLIL context, where English was used, would enhance students' motivation and performance. The project design and its implementation included the composition of
Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny, 2022
This paper examines the first English translation of Colmenero's Curioso Tratado de la Naturaleza... more This paper examines the first English translation of Colmenero's Curioso Tratado de la Naturaleza y Calidad del Chocolate (1631). The analysis of the English version, Chocolate, or an Indian Drinke, by James Wadsworth is carried out from a qualitative perspective, paying special attention to the translated strategies deployed. The research reveals that Wadsworth will chiefly use procedures such as the preservation of indigenous words and extension, as well as other techniques to a lesser extent.
Moderna Sprak, 2022
The increasing impact of English upon Spanish pervades not only its lexicon, but also its morphol... more The increasing impact of English upon Spanish pervades not only its lexicon, but also its morphology. The goal of the article is to see if the revival of several affixes in Spanish is likely due to English influence. These affixes, available in the classic languages, have mainly come down to us through Latin, even though some of them are Greek in origin. This article focuses on the revival of several of these classic affixes that are highly productive in Present-Day Spanish. The data have been retrieved from a corpus containing twenty-first-century written texts in European Spanish and have been compared to information from other corpora and several lexicographic works both in English and Spanish. The resources that are mentioned enable the chronological order of the recording of the items to be traced. This timeline will help to establish the influence of the English lexical units in the coinage of their Spanish counterparts.
TOKEN, 2021
Medieval treatises containing predictions to recognise the signs of death were based on works wri... more Medieval treatises containing predictions to recognise the signs of death were based on works written by Hippocrates or attributed to him. In the case of the Capsula eburnea, the original text was written in Greek and translated into Latin in the Middle Ages. The Latin translations circulated widely in different versions: a translation from Greek between the fifth and the seventh centuries and a later translation from Arabic in the late twelfth century. During the late Middle English period, they were translated into English, among other vernacular languages. The present article aims to compare and collate four fifteenth-century prognostic treatises in Middle English with their possible Latin exemplars. The analysis of the witnesses will shed light on the shadowy landscape of pseudo-Hippocratic prognostic texts in Middle English and will contribute to trace the Latin sources of these Middle English witnesses.
Language Value, 2021
The use of English as a Medium of Instruction to teach subjects other than English is widely spre... more The use of English as a Medium of Instruction to teach subjects other than English is widely spread across European higher education institutions. The University of Alcalá has been working on the implementation of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) for decades now. The internationalisation process accounts for the increasing number of studies both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels taught in English. The response of international students has been positive considering the University of Alcalá one of their favourite Spanish destinations. The interaction of local and foreign students evidences the need to raise awareness towards the intercultural competence as part of the Master's Degree in Teacher Training, so that learners will feel comfortable in a different language and culture and contribute significantly not only to the labour market but also to dialogue and living together. In this article, the authors report on how this is done in one of the compulsory courses of this specific Master's Degree: Complementary Training in English Studies.
SELIM, 2021
Manuscript Ferguson MS 147, a fifteenth-century volume written in Middle English and housed in Gl... more Manuscript Ferguson MS 147, a fifteenth-century volume written in Middle English and housed in Glasgow University Library, contains a copy of the Antidotarium Nicholai, a sarum calendar and a medical compilation which includes medical recipes, prognostic texts, and healing charms. Our interest is placed on the charms in the medical recipe collection found in folios 63r-159v. Following earlier studies on the charm genre, we will characterise the medical charms found in Ferguson MS 147 from a linguistic standpoint. This touches upon the use of language and other technical features, such as the presence of code-switching, the use of specialised symbols and characters, and the terminology used by the scribe to refer to the genre, among others. Concerning textual tradition, we also aim to examine whether the healing charms present variation, even if small, with earlier described charms. From a methodological point of view, the comparison includes contrasting our material with other edited compilations of charms.
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (RLFE), 2021
Hunt (1990: 19) has claimed that "mineral and chemical elements are unusual" in medical recipes. ... more Hunt (1990: 19) has claimed that "mineral and chemical elements are unusual" in medical recipes. Although the number of elements cannot be compared to the estimated 1,800 plant names attested in Middle English (Sauer 2011: 57), our research reveals that Middle English medical manuscripts include references to a good number of chemical items including substances such as metals and their corresponding compounds, plant extracts, and natural and man-made medical ingredients. A comprehensive linguistic analysis of the entire material containing these substances in medieval medical manuscripts has yet to be carried out. In order to study the lexis of chemical ingredients, a corpus of about 215,000 words has been specially compiled from different British libraries. The aim is to undertake a linguistic analysis of the nominal lexicon of this field in Middle English based on the data retrieved from representative authentic sources, several of which have not been published to date. We examine the provenance of the nouns according to their etymology to check whether they are borrowings or native words in the case of simplex terms. We also analyse the structure and the constituents present in nominal combinations according to the usual taxonomies based on Bauer (1983 and 2017), Kastovsky (1992) and Marchand (1969), together with specialised classifications on the topic (Norri 1991).
Neophilological Studies, 2020
This article explores several Early Modern English recipe compilations extant in medical manuscri... more This article explores several Early Modern English recipe compilations extant in medical manuscripts through a purposely-built corpus in order to investigate the recipe genre as a mirror of that time period. Probably no other genre is so permeable to the changes in the cultural and social spheres, given that recipes are reflection of the contemporary society where they are written. This fact is especially noticeable in the abundance of remedies for some ailments of particular concern in the early modern period. Diseases were mainly treated with plants known from Antiquity, but Early Modern English recipes also incorporated new substances from the Continent and, specially, from America.
RAEI, 2019
Active and adventure tourism are two types of tourism that take place outdoors in contact with na... more Active and adventure tourism are two types of tourism that take place outdoors in contact with nature. The present article discusses the language of sports and adventure tourism in Spanish focusing on the use of Anglicisms. We examine the different aspects related to the integration and adaptation of English words. The integration process is often attested through the change in the spelling of the word and its adaptation to the Spanish orthographic system. Furthermore, the influence of English upon Spanish pervades not only its lexicon, but also its morphology, syntax, semantics and phraseology. In this article, we analyse word morphology in terms of plural formation and gender assignment. In order to carry out the research, the data are retrieved from a corpus and an associated database, known as Anglicor, that the authors have been compiling since 2003 up to now. The corpus is made up of several subcorpora, whose main topics are computers, medicine and health issues, fashion, beauty, science and technology, and tourism. The tourism subcorpus is a collection of texts from airline magazines, brochures, academic journals, leaflets, websites and active tourism magazines. For this study, we have made use of recent texts from specialised websites and printed magazines. Thus, the explanations are illustrated with examples obtained from authentic sources, which will provide an up-to-date overview of the presence, use and significance of Anglicisms in the language of sports and adventure tourism in Spanish.
English for Specific Purposes, 2007
Contact with the English language, especially from the 20th century onwards, has had as a consequ... more Contact with the English language, especially from the 20th century onwards, has had as a consequence an increase in the number of words that are borrowed from English into Spanish. This process is particularly noticeable in Spanish for Specific Purposes, and, more specifically, in the case of Spanish computer language. Although sociocultural and linguistic studies can be found in the literature, there are few systematic works on this type of borrowing; thus, the purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the use of English loanwords in Spanish computer language. With that aim, we have carried out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of actual corpus-based data from four different publications addressed at experienced computer users. The main objective is to study the adaptation of loanwords to the Spanish system in terms of gender assignment and plural formation in order to determine whether borrowings in Spanish are governed by the usual criteria regarding gender assignment and check if, in the case of plural formation, the English pattern prevails over the Spanish one or if there is a mixture of both procedures. (Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas), cristina.tejedormartinez@uah.es (C. Tejedor Martínez), mercedes.diez@uah.es (M. Díez Prados), esperanza.cerda@uah.es (E. Cerdá Redondo). English for Specific Purposes 26 (2007) 52-78 www.elsevier.com/locate/esp
Panacea, 2019
Resumen: El objetivo del presente trabajo es comple-tar la información que se ofrece habitualment... more Resumen: El objetivo del presente trabajo es comple-tar la información que se ofrece habitualmente sobre la historia de la enfermedad celiaca mediante el estudio de dos tratados médicos inéditos. Dichas obras reflejan la concepción y el conocimiento general que, en el si-glo xvii, se tenía sobre la misma. En el estudio, se hace una revisión de las principales obras que han tratado la etiología y el tratamiento de esta patología a lo largo de la historia de la medicina y se aportan datos nuevos ofrecidos por otros autores sobre el conocimiento de la enfermedad desde la Antigüedad hasta el momento presente. Palabras clave: enfermedad celiaca, enfermedad celia-ca en el siglo xvii, historia de la medicina, Honscoop, Rufinus. Celiac disease through two unexplored seventeenth century treatises Abstract: The aim of this article is to complete the history of celiac disease by examining two unexplored medical treatises. The seventeenth-century tracts analyzed reflect the conception and general knowledge about the disease at the time. In this study, the most relevant works that have dealt with the etiology and treatment of the disease throughout the history of medicine are reviewed and fresh new data on the disease from classical antiquity to the present time are provided. Keywords: celiac disease, celiac disease in 17th century, history of medicine, Honscoop, Rufinus Panace@ 2019; xx (49): 65-72 Recibido: 12.iii.2019. Aceptado: 28.iv.2019. 1. Introducción 1.1. Objetivos y metodología El objetivo del presente trabajo es completar las ideas y los datos relativos a la enfermedad celiaca a través del estudio de dos tratados médicos inéditos: Disputatio medica inauguralis de passione coeliaca (1671), de Jacobus Rufinus, y Disputatio medi-ca inauguralis de affectione coeliaca (1681), de Cornelius Hons-coop. Ambos reflejan la concepción y el conocimiento general que, a finales del siglo xvii, se tenía sobre la misma. Los trata-dos se han consultado directamente en las primeras ediciones, disponibles en formato digital a través de Early English Books Online en el caso de Honscoop y en la copia original de la Bi-blioteca Bodleiana en el caso de Rufinus. La enfermedad celiaca se puede definir como una entero-patía o trastorno de carácter inmune del tracto gastrointestinal que afecta al intestino delgado y, en particular, al yeyuno, pro-vocando atrofia y malabsorción de nutrientes. La enfermedad se desencadena en sujetos genéticamente predispuestos debido a la ingesta de gluten, una proteína presente en determinados cereales como son el trigo, la cebada y el centeno. La celiaquía apareció durante el periodo Neolítico, a partir del momento en el cual los seres humanos pasaron de ser recolectores y nómadas para asentarse en determinados territorios y cultivar cereales como el trigo (Freeman, 2013: 19). Según Guandalini (2008: 3), hay una correlación entre la propagación de la enfermedad y la geografía de los pueblos y las lenguas indoeuropeas conocidas como centum. Según este mismo autor, el cultivo del trigo em-pezó a expandirse desde el territorio conocido como el Crecien-te Fértil, también llamado la Media Luna Fértil, hacia el oeste. La expansión de la agricultura vino propiciada por movimien-tos migratorios de población que, a su vez, contribuyeron a la difusión de las lenguas indoeuropeas, especialmente del grupo conocido como lenguas centum, cuya extensión geográfica se solapa con la expansión de la agricultura de este cereal. En el presente artículo, se realiza un recorrido histórico por las principales obras que han tratado la enfermedad celiaca desde el siglo i de nuestra era, para después centrarnos en los dos tratados inéditos del siglo xvii, que son reflejo de la tra-dición médica y de las teorías vigentes en el momento de su elaboración. Finalmente, se ofrecen las conclusiones derivadas del estudio. 1.2. La enfermedad celiaca a través de la historia La enfermedad celiaca, cuya denominación proviene del término griego κοιλιακός, para indicar que estos individuos padecían de los intestinos (Liddell, Scott y Jones, 1940), se co-nocía desde la Antigüedad. Pese a que autores anteriores, como Galeno (Liber tertius en Garofalo et. al., 2003: 307), se habían ocupado de la misma, la historia de la enfermedad tradicio-nalmente empieza a contarse a partir de Areteo de Capadocia por ser el primer estudioso que describe la patología con gran detalle (Gasbarrani et al., 2014: 251 y Losowsky, 2008: 112). Ya unas décadas antes, Escribonio Largo, médico del emperador
Selim, 2018
Understanding the large number of abbreviations present in any medieval manuscript is one of the ... more Understanding the large number of abbreviations present in any medieval manuscript is one of the essential skills required by any knowledgeable palaeographer. English medieval manuscripts contain a great variety of abbreviations which were transferred from Latin and applied to the vernacular. As a result, their reasonably standard Latin system lost consistency. Editorial practice should avoid intervention, as it may detract from the originality and the text distinct and stylistic features. However, it is crucial to expand abbreviations coherently to carry out further analysis from a historical linguistic perspective. Thus, this article aims to demonstrate how the way in which a palaeographer transcribes specific abbreviations has an impact on the establishment of the dialectal provenance of a Middle English manuscript. In order to do so, we shall analyse the abbreviations extracted from a corpus of medical manuscripts and bring to light their relevance as far as English historical dialectology is concerned.
Early Modern recipe books map onto women's roles in the period. Women were responsible for the he... more Early Modern recipe books map onto women's roles in the period. Women were responsible for the health and care of all their household members. This explains the women´s interest in gathering information on the topic, usually put together in manuscripts which circulated in the women´s intellectual and domestic circles to serve this purpose. The manuscript is viewed as an artefact likely to be changed to meet the needs of its users. The article seeks to explore genre and text-type conventions in a corpus of medical and culinary recipes written or compiled by women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of Early Modern Britain. The recipes in this period show patterns of continuity from medieval times but also patterns of variation to foreshadow the shape of modern recipes.
The aim of the present article is to discuss the scribal punctuation practice in one of Richard R... more The aim of the present article is to discuss the scribal punctuation practice in one of Richard Rolle's epistles, Ego Dormio, found in two manuscripts that are genetically related: London, Westminster School MS 3 and Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève MS 3390. The analysis of samples seeks both to reveal regular patterns of use concerning punctuation symbols in each text and to test the extent to which there is a correlation between one scribe's use of punctuation marks when compared to the use employed by the other scribe. Although there is a quantitative exploration of the data, the method of analysis also considers contextual information in the description of each punctuation symbol to identify their functions. In addition, earlier works on medieval punctuation in the identification and categorization of symbols along with their already attested functions (following mainly Lucas 1971; Parkes 1992 and Zeeman 1956) have been employed. The results of the study will be compared with these functions in order to contextualize each scribal use of punctuation symbols within the tradition of Middle English manuscripts.
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Articles by Isabel de la Cruz Cabanillas