Medical Writings from Early Medieval England
Seiten
2023
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-29082-2 (ISBN)
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-29082-2 (ISBN)
Medical Writings from Early Medieval England presents vernacular texts on health and healing—unique local remedies and translations of late antique Latin treatises—and offers insights into the history of science and medicine, scribal practices, and culture. This is first comprehensive edition and translation from Old English in more than 150 years.
The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years.
Unlike elsewhere in Europe, vernacular writings on health and healing had a major place in early medieval England. These texts—unique local remedies and translations of late antique Latin treatises—offer insights into the history of science and medicine, social history, scribal practices, and culture. Some cures resemble ones still used today; others are linguistically extravagant, prescribing ambitious healing practices. Alongside recipes for everyday ailments such as headaches are unparalleled procedures for preventing infant mortality, restoring lost cattle, warding off elf-shot, or remedying the effects of flying venom.
Medical Writings from Early Medieval England presents the first comprehensive edition and translation from Old English of these works in more than 150 years. Volume I includes The Old English Herbal, Remedies from Animals, Lacnunga, the Peri Didaxeon, and a compendium of miscellaneous texts.
The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years.
Unlike elsewhere in Europe, vernacular writings on health and healing had a major place in early medieval England. These texts—unique local remedies and translations of late antique Latin treatises—offer insights into the history of science and medicine, social history, scribal practices, and culture. Some cures resemble ones still used today; others are linguistically extravagant, prescribing ambitious healing practices. Alongside recipes for everyday ailments such as headaches are unparalleled procedures for preventing infant mortality, restoring lost cattle, warding off elf-shot, or remedying the effects of flying venom.
Medical Writings from Early Medieval England presents the first comprehensive edition and translation from Old English of these works in more than 150 years. Volume I includes The Old English Herbal, Remedies from Animals, Lacnunga, the Peri Didaxeon, and a compendium of miscellaneous texts.
John D. Niles is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Maria A. D’Aronco is retired Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Udine, Italy.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.04.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library |
| Übersetzer | John D. Niles, Maria A. D'Aronco |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 133 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-29082-8 / 0674290828 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-29082-2 / 9780674290822 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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