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Anglo-Saxon Prognostics - An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii. (Hardcover, New)
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Anglo-Saxon Prognostics - An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii. (Hardcover, New)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Texts
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Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars,
intended as an effort to foretell the future. Winner of the
Beatrice White Prize, 2013. Medieval prognostic texts - a survival
from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a
means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters
of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather,
agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams. They give
fascinating insights into monastic life, medicine, pastoral care,
the transformations of classical learning in the middleages, and
the complex interconnections between orthodox religion, popular
belief, science and magic. This volume provides the first full
critical edition, with a facing-page translation, of a diverse and
peculiar group of prognostic guides and calendars, in Latin and Old
English, found in an eleventh-century manuscript from Christ
Church, Canterbury; they are collated with related versions in both
Anglo-Saxon and continental manuscripts. A lengthy introduction and
commentary examine the transmission and translation of these texts,
and shed light on their origins and uses in late Anglo-Saxon
monastic culture. ROY LIUZZA is Professor of English at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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