Talks on the Topic of the Project

• Chiara Benati, Il lessico medico-chirurgico lanfranchiano in tedesco protomoderno: considerazioni preliminari e stato della ricerca, Circolo Linguistico Fiorentino, Florence, December 19th, 2025.
• Marialuisa Caparrini,  Il lessico medico-chirurgico lanfranchiano in inglese medio: considerazioni preliminari e stato della ricerca,  Circolo Linguistico Fiorentino, Florence, December 19th, 2025. Available at: https://zenodo.org/records/18039739
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, Le versioni germaniche (tedesco protomoderno e inglese medio) della Chirurgia magna di Lanfranco da Milano: Il problema della fonte latina. Talk at the Filologia e Medicina II conference, Genova, December 17^th, 2025.
• Chiara Benati, Toward a Contrastive Analysis of the Surgical Terminology in the Middle English and Early Modern German Translations of Lanfranc of Milan's Chirurgia magna. Talk at the 15^th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. Portuguese Academy of Sciences, Lisboa, June 26^th, 2025.
• Chiara Benati, Rational Surgery Translated into the Vernacular: The German Versions of Lanfranc of Milan's Chirurgia magna. Talk at Medical Words / Medical Worlds: Medical Language and its Contexts in the Medieval Latin West. A Workshop, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, June 6^th, 2025.
• Sonia Colafrancesco, Il manoscritto Wellcome 564: un testimone 'trascurato' della traduzione medio inglese della Chirurgia magna di Lanfranco da Milano. Talk at the LI Convegno annuale dell'Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica, Ferrara, May 30^th, 2025.
• Chiara Benati, Le versioni tedesche della Chirurgia magna di Lanfranco da Milano: Stato dell'arte, specificità e problematiche ecdotiche. Talk at the LI Convegno annuale dell'Associazione Italiana di Filologia Germanica, Ferrara, May 30^th, 2025.
• Sonia Colafrancesco, Terminology of Skin Lesions in the Middle English Antidotary of Lanfranc of Milan's Chirurgia magna. Talk at the 60^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), May 9^th, 2025.
• Brigitte Weber, Die diet des der obtalmiam hat sol smal sein: er sol nit wein trincken noch fleisch essenn: Dealing with Dietary Advice in the Early Modern German Translations of Lanfranc of Milan's Chirurgia magna. Talk at the 60^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), May 9^th, 2025.
• Chiara Benati, Philological Missing Links: "The *-Manuscripts in the Stemma of the German Translation of Lanfranc of Milan's Chirurgia magna. Talk at the 60^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), May 8^th, 2025.
• Chiara Benati, Erwidiger freundt Bernnharrde... Friendship and Community Among Late Medieval Surgeons as Presented in the Vernacular Translations of Lanfranc of Milan's Surgical Works. Talk at the 22^nd International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson (AZ), May 2^nd, 2025.
• Chiara Benati, The Vernacular Terminology in the German Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parva and Chirurgia magna in Kalocsa, Cathedral Library, MS 376. Talk at the 14^th International Conference for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology, University of Westminster, London, June 19^th, 2024.
• Chiara Benati, Latin Surgery in a New Skin: The German Translation of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia magna. Talk at the 59^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), May 10^th, 2024.
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, Where Has God Gone in the Vernacular Renderings of Lanfranc’s Chirurgia magna? Talk at the 21^st International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Miracles and Wonders, Science and Faith in the Pre-Modern Age, University of Arizona, Tucson (AZ), May 4^th, 2024.

Talks Connected to the Topic of the Project

• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, Terminological Variation and Change Across the German Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parva. Talk at the 13^th International Conference for Historical Lexicology and Lexicography, University of Salerno, September 28^th, 2023.
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, The English and German Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works and Their Intended Audiences. Talk at the 58^th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), May 13^th, 2023.
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, The German Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parva: from Latin to Vernacular or from One Vernacular to the Other? Talk at the 2^nd International Conference Traductio et Traditio II: transmissió del saber en l’edat mitjana/Traductio et Traditio II: la transmisión del saber en la Edad Media, University of Alicante, July 6^th-8^th, 2022.
• Marialuisa Caparrini, Diet and Food in the Middle English Versions of Lanfranc’s Chirurgia parva and Chirurgia magna. Talk at the 57^th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (MI), May 9^th-14^th, 2022 (online).
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, The Germanic Translations of Lanfranc’s Surgical Works as Example of Global Circulation of Knowledge. Talk at the 19^th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Globalism and Meeting Foreign Worlds in the Pre-Modern Era, University of Arizona, Tucson (AZ), May 1^st, 2022 (online).

Publications on the Topic of the Project

• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, Ecdotica dei volgarizzamenti inglese e tedesco della Chirurgia magna di Lanfranco da Milano: quale fonte latina? In Medioevo europeo. Rivista di filologia e altra medievalistica 10.1 (2026), pp. 267-292.
• Chiara Benati, Philological Missing Links: The "*-Manuscripts" in the Stemma of the German Translation of Lanfranc's Chirurgia magna. In Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History 28 (2025), pp. 213-230.
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, Where Has God Gone in the Vernacular Renderings of Lanfranc's Chirurgia magna? In Albrecht Classen (ed.), Miracles and Wonders in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: Experiencing Transcendence Between Reality and Imagination, Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2025, pp. 477-504.
• Chiara Benati, La terminologia volgare nelle traduzioni tedesche della Chirurgia parva e della Chirurgia magna di Lanfranco da Milano trasmesse in Kalocsa, Főszékesegyházi Könyvtár, MS 376. In Medioevi: Rivista di letterature e culture medievali 10 (2024), pp. 65-90. Available at: https://www.medioevi.it/index.php/medioevi/article/view/161
• Chiara Benati, Latin Surgery in a New Skin: The German Translation of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia magna. In Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History 27 (2024), pp. 73-98.

Publications Connected to the Topic of the Project

• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, Terminological variation and change across the German translations of Lanfranc of Milan's Chirurgia parva. In Rossella Latorraca, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello & Dirk Geeraerts, Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2026, pp. 22-39.
• Chiara Benati, The German Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works and Their Intended Audiences. In Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini (ed.), The Vernacular Reception of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works in Late Medieval Europe, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing, 2024, pp. 132-154.
• Marialuisa Caparrini, The English Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works and Their Intended Audiences. In Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini (ed.), The Vernacular Reception of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works in Late Medieval Europe, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing, 2024, pp. 106-131.
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, Lanfranc of Milan: A Rational Surgeon from Bologna to Paris. In Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini (ed.), The Vernacular Reception of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works in Late Medieval Europe, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing, 2024, pp. 1-18.
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini (ed.), The Vernacular Reception of Lanfranc of Milan’s Surgical Works in Late Medieval Europe, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing, 2024. Available at: https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridgescholars.com%2Fproduct%2F978-1-0364-1507-5&e=ed7a584b&h=3225d97c&f=y&p=y
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, The Germanic Translations of Lanfranc’s Surgical Works as Example of Global Circulation of Knowledge. In Albrecht Classen (ed.), Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2023, pp. 407-443.
• Chiara Benati & Marialuisa Caparrini, The German Translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parva: from Latin to Vernacular or from One Vernacular to the Other? In Mediaevistik. Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinare Mittelalterforschung, 35 (2022), pp. 265-286. Available online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/plg/med/2022/00000035/0000000…
• Marialuisa Caparrini, I rimedi medici nella versione in inglese medio della Chirurgia magna di Lanfranco da Milano: alcune considerazioni preliminari sui casi di bilinguismo latino-volgare. In Medioevo Europeo. Rivista di filologia e altra medievalistica 6/2 (2022), pp. 21-44. Available online at https://www.medioevoeuropeo-uniupo.com/index.php/mee/article/view/199&n…;