Description: Further DetailsTitle: Anglo-Saxon PrognosticsCondition: NewSubtitle: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii.ISBN-10: 1843842556EAN: 9781843842552ISBN: 9781843842552Publisher: D.S. BrewerFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/20/2011Description: Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars, intended as an effort to foretell the future.Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, 2013. 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. They give fascinating insights into monastic life, medicine, pastoral care, the transformations of classical learning in the middleages, and the complex interconnections between orthodox religion, popular belief, science and magic. 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. A lengthy 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. ROY LIUZZA is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmTranslator: R. M. LiuzzaContributor: R. M. Liuzza (Translated by)Author: R. M. LiuzzaGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Anglo-Saxon TextsItem Weight: 1gTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2011 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: Anglo-Saxon Prognostics
Title: Anglo-Saxon Prognostics
Subtitle: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library,
ISBN-10: 1843842556
EAN: 9781843842552
ISBN: 9781843842552
Release Date: 01/20/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Translator: R. M. Liuzza
Contributor: R. M. Liuzza (Translated by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 305 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Anglo-Saxon Prognostics : An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A. iii
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 2011
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Medieval, Future Studies, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Medieval, Prophecy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Author: R. M. Liuzza
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts
Format: Hardcover
