Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts - Couverture rigide

Chardonnens, Sándor

 
9789004158290: Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004158294 ISBN 13 : 9789004158290
Editeur : Brill, 2007

Synopsis

Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic material in its manuscript context, this book offers a novel approach to the status and purpose of prognostic texts in the early Middle Ages with particular attention to the Anglo-Saxon tradition. From this perspective, it emerges that prognostication in Anglo-Saxon England was not folkloric but a scholarly pursuit by monks not primarily interested in the medical aspects of prognostication. In addition, this book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin from Anglo-Saxon and early post-Conquest manuscripts.

Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, vol. 3

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À propos de l'auteur

László Sándor Chardonnens, Ph.D. (2006) in English, Leiden University, is lecturer at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on prognostics and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004158294
ISBN 13 
9789004158290
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
624
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Personne responsable
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