The Medical Background Of Anglo Saxon England

Author : Wilfrid Bonser
Publisher : London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medical Background of Anglo-Saxon England written by Wilfrid Bonser and published by London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library. This book was released on 1963 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the Anglo-Saxon period, when magic was the chief means of cure. Discusses epidemics, hospitals, surgery, the Church, diseases, remedies, food, drink, diet, etc.

Author : Wilfrid Bonser
Publisher : London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medical Background of Anglo-Saxon England written by Wilfrid Bonser and published by London : Wellcome Historical Medical Library. This book was released on 1963 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the Anglo-Saxon period, when magic was the chief means of cure. Discusses epidemics, hospitals, surgery, the Church, diseases, remedies, food, drink, diet, etc.

Author : Malcolm Laurence Cameron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521405211
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Medicine written by Malcolm Laurence Cameron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to study Old English medical texts.

Author : Faye Getz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082267X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine in the English Middle Ages written by Faye Getz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of English medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice extended far beyond modern definitions. The institutions of court, church, university, and hospital--which would eventually work to separate medical practice from other duties--had barely begun to exert an influence in medieval England, writes Faye Getz. Sufferers could seek healing from men and women of all social ranks, and the healing could encompass spiritual, legal, and philosophical as well as bodily concerns. Here the author presents an account of practitioners (English Christians, Jews, and foreigners), of medical works written by the English, of the emerging legal and institutional world of medicine, and of the medical ideals present among the educated and social elite. How medical learning gained for itself an audience is the central argument of this book, but the journey, as Getz shows, was an intricate one. Along the way, the reader encounters the magistrates of London, who confiscate a bag said by its owner to contain a human head capable of learning to speak, and learned clerical practitioners who advise people on how best to remain healthy or die a good death. Islamic medical ideas as well as the poetry of Chaucer come under scrutiny. Among the remnants of this far distant medical past, anyone may find something to amuse and something to admire.

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521802109
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 30 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture. Thus this volume includes an important assessment of the correspondence of St Boniface, in which it is shown that the unusually formulaic nature of Boniface's letters is best understood as a reflex of the saint's familiarity with vernacular composition. A wide-ranging historical contextualization of The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle illuminates the way English readers of the later tenth century may have defined themselves in contradistinction to the monstrous unknown, and a fresh reading of the gendering of female portraiture in a famous illustrated manuscript of the Psychomachia of Prudentius (CCCC 23) shows the independent ways in which Anglo-Saxon illustrators were able to respond to their models. The usual comprehensive bibliography of the previous year's publications rounds off the book; and a full index of the contents of volumes 26-30 is provided. (Previous indexes have appeared in volumes 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25.)

Author : Emily Kesling
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845490
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture written by Emily Kesling and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Henry Grafton Grattan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848208554
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine written by John Henry Grafton Grattan and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alaric Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elves in Anglo-Saxon England written by Alaric Hall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elves and elf-belief during the Anglo-Saxon period are reassessed in this lively and provocative study. Anglo-Saxon elves [Old English ælfe] are one of the best attested non-Christian beliefs in early medieval Europe, but current interpretations of the evidence derive directly from outdated nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship. Integrating linguistic and textual approaches into an anthropologically-inspired framework, this book reassesses the full range of evidence. It traces continuities and changes in medieval non-Christian beliefs with a new degree of reliability, from pre-conversion times to the eleventh century and beyond, and uses comparative material from medieval Ireland and Scandinavia to argue for a dynamic relationship between beliefs and society. Inparticular, it interprets the cultural significance of elves as a cause of illness in medical texts, and provides new insights into the much-discussed Scandinavian magic of seidr. Elf-beliefs, moreover, were connected withAnglo-Saxon constructions of sex and gender; their changing nature provides a rare insight into a fascinating area of early medieval European culture. Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2007 ALARIC HALL is a fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Author : Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136613889
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Herbal Remedies written by Anne Van Arsdall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : László Sándor Chardonnens
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158294
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100 written by László Sándor Chardonnens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.