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Winner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society
for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 2021. An
examination of the Old English medical collections, arguing that
these texts are products of a learned intellectual culture. Four
complete medical collections survive from Anglo-Saxon England.
These were first edited by Oswald Cockayne in the nineteenth
century and came to be known by the names Bald's Leechbook,
Leechbook III, the Lacnunga, and the Old English Pharmacopeia.
Together these works represent the earliest complete collections of
medical material in a western vernacular language. This book
examines these texts as products of a learned literary culture.
While earlier scholarship tended to emphasise the relationship of
these works to folk belief or popular culture, this study suggests
that all four extant collections were probably produced in major
ecclesiastical centres. It examines the collections individually,
emphasising their differences of content and purpose, while arguing
that each consistently displays connections with an elite
intellectual culture. The final chapter considers the fundamentally
positive depiction of doctors and medicine found within literary
and ecclesiastical works from the period and suggests that the high
esteem for medicine in literate circles may have favoured the study
and translation of medical texts.
Winner of the Best First Monograph from the International Society
for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME) 2021. An
examination of the Old English medical collections, arguing that
these texts are products of a learned intellectual culture. Four
complete medical collections survive from Anglo-Saxon England.
These were first edited by Oswald Cockayne in the nineteenth
century and came to be known by the names Bald's Leechbook,
Leechbook III, the Lacnunga, and the Old English Pharmacopeia.
Together these works represent the earliest complete collections of
medical material in a western vernacular language. This book
examines these texts as products of a learned literary culture.
While earlier scholarship tended to emphasise the relationship of
these works to folk belief or popular culture, this study suggests
that all four extant collections were probably produced in major
ecclesiastical centres. It examines the collections individually,
emphasising their differences of content and purpose, while arguing
that each consistently displays connections with an elite
intellectual culture. The final chapter considers the fundamentally
positive depiction of doctors and medicine found within literary
and ecclesiastical works from the period and suggests that the high
esteem for medicine in literate circles may have favoured the study
and translation of medical texts.
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