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The first book to study Old English medical texts.
Author : Malcolm Laurence Cameron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1993-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521405211
The first book to study Old English medical texts.
Author : Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1136613889
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Author : Emily Kesling
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1843845490
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.
Author : Julian Walker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780712357012
"This new book presents a fascinating illustrated compilation of some of the most curious and disturbing cures from history, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century." --Book jacket.
Author : Sinéad Spearing
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1526711729
How pagan women blended magic and medicine—and why their medieval recipes may help cure modern-day illnesses. In ninth-century England, Bishop lfheah the Bald is dabbling with magic. By collecting folk remedies from pagan women, he risks his reputation. Yet posterity has been kind, as from the pages of Bald’s book a remedy has been found that cures the superbug MRSA where modern antibiotics have failed. Within a few months of this discovery, a whole new area of medical research called Ancientbiotics has been created to discover further applications for these remedies. Yet, what will science make of the elves, hags and nightwalkers which also stalk the pages of Bald’s book and its companion piece Lacnunga, urging prescriptions of a very different, unsettling nature? In these works, cures for the “moon mad” and hysteria are interspersed with directives to drink sheep’s dung and jump across dead men’s graves. Old English Medical Remedies explores the herbal efficacy of these ancient remedies while evaluating the supernatural, magical elements, and suggests these provide a powerful psychological narrative revealing an approach to healthcare far more sophisticated than hitherto believed. All the while, the voices of the wise women who created and used these remedies are brought to life, after centuries of suppression by the Church, in this fascinating read.
Author : John Henry Grafton Grattan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN :
Author : Oswald Cockayne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752592389
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Being a Collection of Documents Illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest.
Author : Joseph Frank Payne
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN :
1999. Gift of Dr. Leon Banov, Jr. (Waring, copy 2).
Author : Joseph Frank Payne
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1975-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780404133559
Author : Joseph Frank Payne
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 1904
Category :
ISBN :