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Hybrid Healing - Old English Remedies and Medical Texts (Hardcover)
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Hybrid Healing - Old English Remedies and Medical Texts (Hardcover)
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
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Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse,
liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral
tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily
ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming
bees and stolen cattle. Hybrid healing works from the premise that
the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an
equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Through a
case study approach, this exploration of early medicine offers a
series of close readings tailored specifically to individual
remedies, drawing from a range of fields including plant biology,
classical rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability
studies. Embracing the endless complexity of these Old English
texts, Hybrid healing argues that the healing power of individual
remedies ultimately derives from a dynamic and unpredictable
process that is at once both deeply traditional and also
ever-changing. -- .
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