Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Kesling
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781843845492
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-549-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; England, Geschichte der Medizin, 500 bis 1000 nach Christus, Angelsächsisch / Altenglisch