The Vernacular Reception of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works in Late Medieval Europe

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).