Early Medieval Medicine in Context (eBook)

Transmission, Translation and Transformation

Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, Lea Olsan (Herausgeber)

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2025
256 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80543-879-3 (ISBN)

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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witnessed significant shifts in the scholarly investigation of early medieval medicine and its texts, moving far beyond outdated stereotypes of stagnation and superstition, not least via close study of the manuscript evidence, which has enabled a better appreciation of the processes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.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Tables

Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Note on Translation

Introduction: Currents in the Study of Early Medieval Medicine
Debby Banham, Claire Burridge and Lea Olsan


Part I: Transmission: Greek, Old English, and Latin

1. Paul of Aegina on Venomous Animals: An Introduction and Translation
Christine Salazar†

2. The Beginnings of English Medicine: Confluences and Crosscurrents in Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III
Debby 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 Transformation
Lea 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 III
Conan T. Doyle

7. Use and Elaboration of Latin Sources in Later Anglo-Saxon England: The Peri didaxeon
Danielle 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 Medicine
Debby Banham and Lea Olsan

Memories of Audrey Meaney
Catherine Hills

A Bibliography of Audrey Meaney's Work


Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Bald's Leechbook • Byzantine Greek Treatise • Continental Latin Recipe Collections • Early Medieval Medicine • healing practices • manuscript evidence • medical knowledge • Obstetric Texts • Old Norse sagas • Transformation • Translation • Transmission
• ISBN-10: 1-80543-879-4 / 1805438794
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80543-879-3 / 9781805438793