Description: Further DetailsTitle: Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary CultureCondition: NewEAN: 9781843845492ISBN: 9781843845492Publisher: D.S. BrewerFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/21/2020Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Emily KeslingLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1843845490Description: Winner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 2021.An examination of the Old English medical collections, arguing that these texts are products of a learned intellectual culture.Four complete medical collections survive from Anglo-Saxon England. These were first edited by Oswald Cockayne in the nineteenth century and came to be known by the names Bald's Leechbook, Leechbook III, the Lacnunga, and the Old English Pharmacopeia. Together these works represent the earliest complete collections of medical material in a western vernacular language. This book examines these texts as products of a learned literary culture. While earlier scholarship tended to emphasise the relationship of these works to folk belief or popular culture, this study suggests that all four extant collections were probably produced in major ecclesiastical centres. It examines the collections individually, emphasising their differences of content and purpose, while arguing that each consistently displays connections with an elite intellectual culture. The final chapter considers the fundamentally positive depiction of doctors and medicine found within literary and ecclesiastical works from the period and suggests that the high esteem for medicine in literate circles may have favoured the study and translation of medical texts.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBBook Series: Anglo-Saxon StudiesItem Weight: 1gRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Title: Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
EAN: 9781843845492
ISBN: 9781843845492
Release Date: 02/21/2020
Release Year: 2020
ISBN-10: 1843845490
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Name: Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Medieval, History, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.3 Oz
Author: Emily Kesling
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History, Medical
Item Length: 9.8 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Format: Hardcover
