UID:
almahu_9949702322802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047420422
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2007
Content:
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 , volume 3
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Preliminary material /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One. Prognostics defined /
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Chapter Two. The manuscript context /
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Chapter Three. Language, date and place of origin of english manuscripts containing prognostics /
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Chapter Four. Superstition and prognostication /
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Chapter Five. Intended Use Of Prognostic texts /
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Conclusion /
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Text edition /
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Appendix One. Handlist of prognostics in english manuscripts of the ninth to twelfth centuries /
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Appendix Two. Reference list /
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Appendix Three. Concordance to anglo-saxon prognostics /
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Appendix Four. Values, dates, composition /
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Bibliography /
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Index of names /
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Index of subjects /
Additional Edition:
Anglo-Saxon prognostics ISBN 9789004158290 (hardback : alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004158294 (hardback : alk. paper)
Language:
English
