Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9004158294

ISBN13:9789004158290

Release Date:June 2007

Publisher:Brill

Length:624 Pages

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