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Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England - Being a Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest (Paperback)
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Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England - Being a Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls, Volume 2
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This three-volume work, published in 1864-6, was edited by Thomas
Oswald Cockayne (1807-73), a Cambridge graduate, much-published
early member of the London Philological Society, and teacher of the
philologists Walter Skeat and Henry Sweet. It is a collection of
writings from pre-Conquest Britain on plants, medicine and the
heavens, mostly in Old English with accompanying modern English
translations. The preface of Volume 2 outlines evidence for early
medieval British material culture, particularly foodstuffs, drink,
fabrics and metals, and argues against dismissing the Anglo-Saxons
and their contemporaries as 'primitive'. The Old English text in
this volume is taken from a tenth-century manuscript in the Royal
Collection, which Cockayne suggests may have belonged to the Abbot
of Glastonbury. It is a careful and thorough compilation of
remedies for conditions ranging from toothache to complications of
pregnancy, and digestive problems to mental illness, and reveals
the influence of Greek medical learning in the Anglo-Saxon world.
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