Description: Anglo-Saxon Prognostics : An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius ., Hardcover by Liuzza, R. M. (EDT), ISBN 1843842556, ISBN-13 9781843842552, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams ... this volume provides the first full critical edition, with a facing-page translation, of a diverse and peculiar group of prognostic guides and calendars, in Latin and Old English, found in an eleventh-century manuscript from Christ Church, Canterbury; they are collated with related versions in both Anglo-Saxon and continental manuscripts. An introduction and commentary examine the transmission and translation of these texts, and shed light on their origins and uses in late Anglo-Saxon monastic culture"--P. [4] of cover.
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Book Title: Anglo-Saxon Prognostics : An Edition and Translation of Texts fro
Number of Pages: 305 Pages
Publication Name: Anglo-Saxon Prognostics : An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A. iii
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Subject: Medieval, Future Studies, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Medieval, Prophecy
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History
Author: R. M. Liuzza
Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
