|
Darrera modificació: 2025-10-15
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Banham, Debby - Burridge, Claire - Olsan, Lea, Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation, York, York Medieval Press (Health and Healing in the Middle Ages, 9), 2025, 300 pp.
- Resum
- The past few decades have witnessed significant shifts in the scholarly investigation of early medieval medicine and its texts, moving far beyond outdated stereotypes of stagnation and superstition, not least via close study of the manuscript evidence, which has enabled a better appreciation of the processes involved in the recording and transfer of medical knowledge and healing practices. This book builds on these recent developments. With a particular focus on transmission, translation and transformation, the essays collected here offer detailed explorations of sources, contexts, producers and uses, examining material ranging from Bald's Leechbook and continental Latin recipe collections to Old Norse sagas and a Byzantine Greek treatise on venomous animals (Book V of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia). Several contributors explore Old English's multifarious connections with the Latin tradition, discussing charms, obstetric and gynaecological texts, as well as the Peri didaxeon. The volume concludes with an afterword by Peregrine Horden on future directions of study, inviting further research into this vibrant and growing field.
Conte:
*Banham, Debby - Burridge, Claire -Olsan, Lea / Introduction: Currents in the Study of Early Medieval Medicine
Part I: Transmission: Greek, Old English, and Latin
1. Salazar, Chirstine† / Paul of Aegina on Venomous Animals: An Introduction and Translation
2. Banham, Debby - Voth, Christine / The Beginnings of English Medicine: Confluences and Crosscurrents in Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III
3. Burridge, Claire / Medieval Recipe Collections: Continuity, Change, and the Carolingian Context
Part II: Translation: Words into Practices
4. Olsan, Lea / Charms in Late Antique and Early Medieval Medicine: Transmission and Transformation
5. Doolittle, Jeffrey / Tools in the Early Middle Ages: Knowledge and Practice in Medical Recipes
Part III: Transformation: Texts and Later Adaptations
6. Doyle, Conan T. / Gynaecology in the Priory? Contextualising the Gynaecological Fragments in London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A III
7. Maion, Danielle / Use and Elaboration of Latin Sources in Later Anglo-Saxon England: The Peri didaxeon
8. Lee, Christina / Signs and Portents: Epidemic Disease and the Supernatural in Icelandic Sagas
* Horden, Peregrine / Afterword: Recent Developments and Future Agenda
Audrey Meaney: An Appreciation
*Banham, Debby - Olsan, Lea / Audrey Meaney and the Study of Early Medieval Medicine
*Hills, Catherine / Memories of Audrey Meaney
*A Bibliography of Audrey Meaney's Work
- Matèries
- Anglès
Manuscrits
Medicina
Llatí
Recepció
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
|