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Trilling, Renée R., "Health and healing in the Anglo-Saxon world", Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, ser. 3, 13 (2016), 41-70.

Resum

Early schoñars tended to characterize the Anglo-Saxon medical tradition as barbaric, superstitious, and largely ineffective, citing a heavy reliance on charms and magic in their healing practices. Yet the actual percentage of charms and superstitions within the Old English medical corpus is quite small, and numerous studies have assessed the rationality and efficacy of many remedies. Dividing remedies between magical and medical, however, introduces a distinction that did not obtain for the original practitioners. Anglo-Saxon medicine must therefore be understood as having radically different notions of health and healing from the modern world.

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Història de la medicina
Màgia - Màgia mèdica i protectora