Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100

Study and Texts

AvSándor Chardonnens

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-06-05
Mått:155 x 235 x 45 mm
Vikt:1 161 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History
Antal sidor:608
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004158290

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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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"A very interesting study." - Antonella Sannino, in: Nuncius 14:2 (2009) 509-510

Innehållsförteckning

Figures, Plates, TablesAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1.. Prognostics Defined2. The Manuscript Context3. Language, Date and Place of Origin of English Manuscripts Containing Prognostics4. Superstition and Prognostication5. Intended Use of Prognostic TextsConclusionTEXT EDITIONIntroductions to the TextsEdition of the TextsAlphabet PrognosticApuleian SphereBirth PrognosticsBloodletting Prognostic, Day of the WeekBrontologiesDog DaysDreambookEgyptian DaysLunariesMonth PrognosisMoon ColourRegimenSortes SanctorumSunshine PrognosticUnlucky DaysWind PrognosticYear PrognosisAppendicesAppendix I. Handlist of Prognostics in English Manuscripts of the Ninth to Twelfth CenturiesAppendix II. Reference ListAppendix III. Concordance to Anglo-Saxon PrognosticsAppendix IV. Values, Dates, CompositionBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects