|
Darrera modificació: 2018-03-13
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Chardonnens, László Sándor, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics (900-1100): Study and Texts, Leiden - Boston, Brill (Brill's studies in intellectual history, 153 / Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history, 3), 2007, xiv + 605 pp.
- Resum
- 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. Includes edition of Old English prognostics, Latin prognostics with Old English glosses, and Latin prognostics.
Contents:
* Preliminary material · i–xv
* Introduction · 1–4
* 1. Prognostics defined · 5–24
* 2. The manuscript context · 25–64
* 3. Language, date and place of origin of English manuscripts containing prognostics · 65–93
* 4. Superstition and prognostication · 95–138
* 5. Intended use of prognostic texts · 139–158
* Conclusion · 159–166
* Text edition · 167–500
* Appendix 1. Handlist of prognostics in English manuscripts of the ninth to twelfth centuries · 501–548
* Appendix 2. Reference list · 549–554
* Appendix 3. Concordance to anglo-saxon prognostics · 555–558
* Appendix 4. Values, dates, composition · 559–566
* Bibliography · 567–592
* Index of names · 593–597
* Index of subjects · 598–608
- Matèries
- Medicina
Fonts
Anglès
Llatí
Edició
Religió - Profetisme
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
|