Hybrid Healing - Old English Remedies and Medical Texts

Informationen zum Autor Lori Ann Garner is Professor of English at Rhodes College Klappentext This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Taking a case study approach, it offers close readings tailored to individual remedies, drawing from biology, rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies.

Product details

• Authors: Lori Ann Garner, Lori Ann (Associate Professor of English) Garner, Garner Lori Ann
• Assisted by: David Matthews (Editor), James Paz (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781526158499
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5849-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; England, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), History of Medicine, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, European history: medieval period, middle ages, c 400 to c 1066 (Anglo-Saxon period), Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Anglo-Saxon