Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture

Emily Kesling

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Emily Kesling

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: April 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781787446908
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787446908

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
Series:: Anglo-Saxon Studies

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An examination of the extant pre-Conquest medical material, arguing that the texts are products of a sophisticated intellectual culture.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of Tables
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-ix

Abbreviations
pp x-xii

Introduction
pp 1-22

1 - Bald’s Leechbook: A Medical Compendium
pp 23-56

2 - Elves, the Demonic, and Leechbook III
pp 57-94

3 - The Lacnunga and Insular Grammatica
pp 95-129

4 - The Old English Herbarium and the Monastic Reform
pp 130-152

5 - Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England
pp 153-186

Appendices: Extended Quotations

Appendix A - Bald’s Leechbook and its Latin Source Material
pp 187-193

Appendix B - Parallel Passages in the Lacnunga and MS CCCC 41
pp 194-198

Bibliography
pp 199-228

Index
pp 229-234

Anglo-Saxon Studies
pp 235-236

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