Emily Kesling

Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Anglo-Saxon Studies
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781843846833
• ISBN-10: 1843846837
• Artikelnr.: 64539082

Autorenporträt

EMILY KESLING gained her DPhil from the University of Oxford; she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Bald's Leechbook: A Medical Compendium Elves, the Demonic, and
Leechbook III The Lacnunga and Insular Grammatica The Old English Herbarium
and the Monastic Reform Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England Appendix A: Bald's
Leechbook and its Latin Source Material Appendix B: B.Parallel Passages in
the Lacnunga and MS CCCC 41 Bibliography