Old English Medical Remedies
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Old English Medical Remedies
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Author : Sinéad Spearing
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2018-02-28
Old English Medical Remedies written by Sinéad Spearing and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-28 with History categories.
How pagan women blended magic and medicine—and why their medieval recipes may help cure modern-day illnesses. In ninth-century England, Bishop lfheah the Bald is dabbling with magic. By collecting folk remedies from pagan women, he risks his reputation. Yet posterity has been kind, as from the pages of Bald’s book a remedy has been found that cures the superbug MRSA where modern antibiotics have failed. Within a few months of this discovery, a whole new area of medical research called Ancientbiotics has been created to discover further applications for these remedies. Yet, what will science make of the elves, hags and nightwalkers which also stalk the pages of Bald’s book and its companion piece Lacnunga, urging prescriptions of a very different, unsettling nature? In these works, cures for the “moon mad” and hysteria are interspersed with directives to drink sheep’s dung and jump across dead men’s graves. Old English Medical Remedies explores the herbal efficacy of these ancient remedies while evaluating the supernatural, magical elements, and suggests these provide a powerful psychological narrative revealing an approach to healthcare far more sophisticated than hitherto believed. All the while, the voices of the wise women who created and used these remedies are brought to life, after centuries of suppression by the Church, in this fascinating read.
Medieval Herbal Remedies
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Author : Anne Van Arsdall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-21
Medieval Herbal Remedies written by Anne Van Arsdall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-21 with History categories.
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Anglo Saxon Medicine
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Author : Malcolm Laurence Cameron
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1993-07-22
Anglo Saxon Medicine written by Malcolm Laurence Cameron and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-07-22 with History categories.
The first book to study Old English medical texts.
Hybrid Healing
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Author : Lori Ann Garner
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-13
Hybrid Healing written by Lori Ann Garner and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through combinations of instructive prose and incantatory verse, liturgical rituals and herbal recipes, Latinate learning and oral tradition, the Old English remedies offer hope not only for bodily ailments but also for such dangers as solitary travel, swarming bees and stolen cattle. Hybrid healing works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies. Through a case study approach, this exploration of early medicine offers a series of close readings tailored specifically to individual remedies, drawing from a range of fields including plant biology, classical rhetoric, archaeology, folkloristics and disability studies. Embracing the endless complexity of these Old English texts, Hybrid healing argues that the healing power of individual remedies ultimately derives from a dynamic and unpredictable process that is at once both deeply traditional and also ever-changing.
Medieval Herbal Remedies
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Author : Anne Van Arsdall
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-02-28
Medieval Herbal Remedies written by Anne Van Arsdall and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with History categories.
Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has been revised and updated throughout to reflect new scholarship and new findings. New information is presented on Oswald Cockayne, the nineteenth-century philologist who first translated the Old English medical texts for the modern world. Here the medieval text is read as an example of technical writing (i.e., intended to convey instructions/information), not as literature. The audience it was originally aimed at would know how to diagnose and treat medical conditions and knew or was learning how to follow its instructions. For that reason, while working on the translation, specialists in relevant fields were asked to shed light on its terse wording, for example, herbalists and physicians. Unlike many current studies, this work discusses the Herbarium and other medical texts in Old English as part of a tradition developed throughout early-medieval Europe associated with monasteries and their libraries. The book is intended for scholars in cross-cultural fields; that is, with roots in one field and branches in several, such as nineteenth-century or medieval studies, for historians of herbalism, medicine, pharmacy, botany, and of the Western Middle Ages, broadly and inclusively defined, and for readers interested in the history of herbalism and medicine.
Old English Medical Remedies
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Author : Sinead Spearing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Old English Medical Remedies written by Sinead Spearing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Medicine categories.
Health And Healing From The Medieval Garden
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Author : Peter Dendle
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2015
Health And Healing From The Medieval Garden written by Peter Dendle and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Health & Fitness categories.
Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.
The Curious Cures Of Old England
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Author : Nigel Cawthorne
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-02
The Curious Cures Of Old England written by Nigel Cawthorne and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-02 with Medical categories.
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey? The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the time, many of these cures were often useless and often resulted in the death of the patient. But strange and alarming though many of the cures may seem, some of them did in fact work and provide the basis of much of the medicine we take for granted nowadays. The use of herbs by medieval monks was remarkably effective - and still is today. This highly entertaining and informative book will fascinate anyone who has ever wondered whether doctors really know what they are talking about - just don't try any of the cures mentioned at home! Or that weak eyes can be cured by the application of chicken dung - or alternatively be large draughts of beer taken in the morning? Or that the juice extracted from a bucketful of snails covered in brown sugar and hung over a basin overnight was once used to cure a sore throat?
Medieval Herbals
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Author : Minta Collins
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Medieval Herbals written by Minta Collins and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Art categories.
Collins shows how the principal herbal traditions of Classical descent were replaced by a new observation of nature that itself paved the way for the magnificent paintings of later French and Italian herbals.
The Encyclopedia Of Medieval Literature In Britain 4 Volume Set
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Author : Sian Echard
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-08-07
The Encyclopedia Of Medieval Literature In Britain 4 Volume Set written by Sian Echard and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Bringing together scholarship on multilingual and intercultural medieval Britain like never before, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain comprises over 600 authoritative entries spanning key figures, contexts and influences in the literatures of Britain from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries. A uniquely multilingual and intercultural approach reflecting the latest scholarship, covering the entire medieval period and the full tapestry of literary languages comprises over 600 authoritative yet accessible entries on key figures, texts, critical debates, methodologies, cultural and isitroical contexts, and related terminology Represents all the literatures of the British Isles including Old and Middle English, Early Scots, Anglo-Norman, the Norse, Latin and French of Britain, and the Celtic Literatures of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall Boasts an impressive chronological scope, covering the period from the Saxon invasions to the fifth century to the transition to the Early Modern Period in the sixteenth Covers the material remains of Medieval British literature, including manuscripts and early prints, literary sites and contexts of production, performance and reception as well as highlighting narrative transformations and intertextual links during the period