DEBBY BANHAM is a tutor and special supervisor at Newnham College, Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. CLAIRE BURRIDGE is a Senior Researcher in Medieval History at the University of Oslo. LEA OLSAN is Professor Emerita at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, LA, USA. CLAIRE BURRIDGE is a Senior Researcher in Medieval History at the University of Oslo. CONAN DOYLE obtained his PhD in 2018 and since 2022 has worked as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. DEBBY BANHAM is a tutor and special supervisor at Newnham College, Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. LEA OLSAN is Professor Emerita at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, LA, USA.

• Contents List of Tables Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on TranslationIntroduction: Currents in the Study of Early Medieval MedicineDebby Banham, Claire Burridge and Lea Olsan Part I: Transmission: Greek, Old English, and Latin 1. Paul of Aegina on Venomous Animals: An Introduction and TranslationChristine Salazar† 2. The Beginnings of English Medicine: Confluences and Crosscurrents in Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook IIIDebby Banham and Christine Voth 3. Early Medieval Recipe Collections: Continuity, Change, and the Carolingian Context Claire Burridge Part II: Translation: Words into Practices 4. Charms in Late Antique and Early Medieval Medicine: Transmission and TransformationLea Olsan 5. Pharmaceutical Tools in the Early Middle Ages: Knowledge and Practice in Medical Recipes Jeffrey Doolittle Part III: Transformation: Texts and Later Adaptations 6. Gynaecology in the Priory? Contextualising the Gynaecological Fragments in London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A IIIConan T. Doyle 7. Use and Elaboration of Latin Sources in Later Anglo-Saxon England: The Peri didaxeonDanielle Maion 8. Signs and Portents: Epidemic Disease and the Supernatural in Icelandic Sagas Christina Lee Afterword: Recent Developments and Future Agenda Peregrine Horden Audrey Meaney: An Appreciation Audrey Meaney and the Study of Early Medieval MedicineDebby Banham and Lea Olsan Memories of Audrey MeaneyCatherine Hills A Bibliography of Audrey Meaney's Work BibliographyIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral Index