Del 9 - Health and Healing in the Middle Ages

Early Medieval Medicine in Context

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Transmission, Translation and Transformation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan, Dr Debby Banham

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Fresh perspectives on how medical texts, broadly construed, were recorded, perceived and utilised.The past few decades have witnessed significant shifts in the scholarly investigation of early medieval medicine and its texts, moving far beyond outdated stereotypes of stagnation and superstition, not least via close study of the manuscript evidence, which has enabled a better appreciation of the processes involved in the recording and transfer of medical knowledge and healing practices. This book builds on these recent developments. With a particular focus on transmission, translation and transformation, the essays collected here offer detailed explorations of sources, contexts, producers and uses, examining material ranging from Bald's Leechbook and continental Latin recipe collections to Old Norse sagas and a Byzantine Greek treatise on venomous animals (Book V of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia). Several contributors explore Old English's multifarious connections with the Latin tradition, discussing charms, obstetric and gynaecological texts, as well as the Peri didaxeon. The volume concludes with an afterword by Peregrine Horden on future directions of study, inviting further research into this vibrant and growing field. Chapter 3 is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND. The article received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 101018645.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-18
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHealth and Healing in the Middle Ages
Antal sidor322
FörlagYork Medieval Press
ISBN9781914049316

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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