Format:
1 online resource (624 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047420422
Series Statement:
Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History Ser. v.153
Content:
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.
Content:
Figures, Plates, Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One Prognostics Defined -- The Nature of Prognostics -- The Study of Prognostics -- History of the Subject -- State of Affairs -- Chapter Two The Manuscript Context -- Manuscript Contexts -- Calendars -- Computi -- Medical Sections and Manuscripts -- Prognostics as Guest Texts -- Prognostic Sections -- Sequences -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three Language, Date and Place of Origin of English Manuscripts Containing Prognostics -- Language -- Language and Context -- Language Dependence -- Place of Origin and Date -- Place of Origin -- Date -- Late Anglo-Saxon Prognostics and the Benedictine Reform -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four Superstition and Prognostication -- Appeals to Authority -- An Anatomy of Superstition -- Superstition Defined -- An Old English Vocabulary of Observation and Divination -- References to Prognostication in Anglo-Saxon Sources -- Attitudes towards Prognostication -- Folklore or 'Mönchsaberglaube'? -- The Pastoral Hypothesis -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five Intended Use of Prognostic Texts -- Signs of Use -- Function and Context -- The Medical Context -- The Arithmetical Side: Calendars and Computi -- The Utilitarian Approach: Prognostics as Guest Material -- Concerns with the Future: Prognostic Sections -- Textual Shape and Context -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Text Edition -- Introductions to the Texts -- Edition of the Texts -- Editorial Procedure -- Alphabet Prognostic -- Apuleian Sphere -- Birth Prognostics -- Birth Prognostic, Temporal, Development of the Foetus -- Birth Prognostic, Temporal, Three Miraculous Days -- Birth Prognostic, Temporal, Day of the Week -- Birth Prognostic, Non-Temporal, Gender Prediction -- Bloodletting Prognostic, Day of the Week -- Brontologies -- Brontology, Temporal, Canonical Hours.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004158290
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004158290
Language:
English
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