| Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts Contributor(s): Chardonnens, Sándor (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004158294 ISBN-13: 9789004158290 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $167.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: This book offers an analysis of the status and function of the Anglo-Saxon prognostics in their manuscript context, a study of their introduction to and transmission in Anglo-Saxon England, and, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Law | Intellectual Property - General - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 829 |
| LCCN: 2007023629 |
| Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and |
| Physical Information: 624 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |