cam a22 4 4500 599428937 CHVBK 20200929102012.0 200820s2020 xxk |||| 000 0 eng|d 1-84384-549-0 978-1-84384-549-2 (IDSBB)007173179 (NEBIS)011618452 (VAUD)991021333591302852 (OCoLC)1110450040 (EXLNZ-41BCULAUSA_NETWORK)991023662321202851 YDX ger YDX SzZuIDS BS/BE rda 610.941 23 Kesling Emily Verfasser aut Medical texts in Anglo-Saxon literary culture Emily Kesling Cambridge D.S. Brewer 2020 233 Seiten Anglo-Saxon studies volume 38 38 (IDSBB)002638021 259009601 Bibliographie: pages 199-228 Index: pages 229-233 Introduction - 1. Bald's Leechbook: a medical compendium - 2. Elves, the demonic, and Leechbook III - 3. The Lacnunga and insular Grammatica - 4. The Old English Herbarium and the monastic reform - 5. Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England - Appendices: Extended quotations. A. Bald's Leechbook and its Latin source material - B. Parallel passages in the Lacnunga and MS CCCC 41 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. EMILY KESLING gained her DPhil from the University of Oxford; she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo. Geschichte 450-1100 gnd Medicine, Medieval England Sources Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Medizin (Motiv) (DE-588)4114545-8 gnd Altenglisch (DE-588)4112501-0 gnd Medizin (DE-588)4038243-6 gnd Medicine, Medieval England Sources idszbzes Anglo-Saxons Medicine Sources idszbzes Littérature et médecine Grande-Bretagne Moyen âge ram Literatur gnd Medizin gnd Altenglisch gnd Anglo-Saxon studies 8 BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 esmon202009f lang esswk202009b leud idszbz Z2 M365 Z19 s1me rnv s2an rnv IDSBB B583 B583 MAG IMG CFA 2020 69 IMG WZ 330 K42 NELB5832003 IDSBB 100 1- Kesling Emily Verfasser aut IDSBB 490 0- Anglo-Saxon studies volume 38 38 (IDSBB)002638021 259009601 NEBIS 100 1- Kesling Emily 1989- (DE-588)1206903627 Verfasser aut NEBIS 490 0- Anglo-Saxon studies 38 38 (NEBIS)004427357 259009601 VAUD 100 1- Kesling Emily Verfasser aut VAUD 490 1- Anglo-Saxon Studies 38 VAUD 830 -- Anglo-Saxon studies 8 SWISSBIB 585512523