Emily Kesling

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Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary CulturePaperback, 4 April 2023

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Part of Series
Anglo-Saxon Studies
Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Date Published
4 Apr 2023
ISBN-10
1843846837
ISBN-13
9781843846833

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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.

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.

Product Details

Author:
Emily Kesling
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
4 April 2023
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.35 cm
Genre:
Medieval (500-1453) Studies
ISBN-10:
1843846837
ISBN-13:
9781843846833
Language:
English
Location:
Woodbridge
Pages:
248
Weight:
353.8 gm

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