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Darrera modificació: 2025-10-14
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Doyle, Conan, The Reception of Latin Medicine in Early Medieval England: The Evidence from Old English Texts, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer - York Medieval Press (Health and Healing in the Middle Ages, 8), 2025, x + 290 pp., il·l.
- Resum
- The aim of this book is to describe the reception of Latin medical texts from the beginnings of Anglo-Latin literary culture with the Augustine Mission of 597 to the Norman conquest of 1066. Direct evidence for the earlier Latin sources and transmission of early medieval medical texts in England is sorely lacking – which has led to scholarly neglect. This is a gap this book addresses, via a close examination of the Old English medical corpus, including the Lacnunga and Bald's Leechbook, to shed light on the diffusion and reception of this knowledge. It considers exactly which Latin medical texts were used in the compilation of the Old English versions, showing that they were, in many cases, translations of Greek medical texts. From this, it argues that the Old English corpus as a whole was a creative endeavor to synthesize the best medical knowledge available at the time, from the various Latin works of Soranus of Ephesus to the sixth- or seventh-century Latin traditions of Galen of Pergamum, Oribasius of Pergamum and Alexander of Tralles. Covering over eight centuries of the textual tradition of medicine, it demonstrates that the dissemination of medical knowledge in pre-Conquest England was far wider than previously believed.
Contents:
* Introduction
* 1. The Old English Medical Corpus
* 2. The Latin Herbal and the Compilation and Transmission of Medical Texts
* 3. Receptaria
* 4. Galen, Pseudo-Galen and the Pre-Gariopontean Ensemble
* 5. The Fortunes of Oribasius
* 6. Alexander Trallianus
* 7. The Tereoperica and the Peri didaxeon
* Conclusion
* Appendix 1: Source conspectus of Bald's Leechbook
* Appendix 2: Compilation from Multiple Sources
* Appendix 3: Galen in Old English
* Appendix 4: The Latin Alexander in Old English
* Appendix 5: Illustrative contents of Medical manuscripts
- Matèries
- Medicina
Manuscrits
Traduccions
Llatí
Anglès
Recepció
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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