This book presents for the first time and 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.
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Van Arsdall's translation is lucid, idiomatic, and captures the matter-of-fact tone of the original
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–Faith Wallis, McGill University, Speculum, October 2004
a welcome contribution to the study of medicine in Anglo-Saxon England and will be very useful for both reference and teaching.
–Faith Wallis, McGill University, Speculum, October 2004
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–Faith Wallis, McGill University, Speculum, October 2004
a welcome contribution to the study of medicine in Anglo-Saxon England and will be very useful for both reference and teaching.
–Faith Wallis, McGill University, Speculum, October 2004
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In a listing of Anglo-Saxon scholars by importance, somewhere toward the end, but certainly present, would be the Rev. T. Oswald Cockayne (1807-73). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anglo-Saxon England, Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius, King's College School, Oswald Cockayne, Bald's Leechbook, New York, Medieval Herbal Remedies, New Mexico, The Shrine, Henry Sweet, Middle English, Cotton Vitellius, Cockayne's Leechdoms, Herbarium Apulei, United States, Charles Singer, King Alfred, Rolls Series, Starcraft of Early England, Medieval England, Philological Society, British Museum, Houghton Library, Jerry Stannard, Joseph Bosworth New!
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In a listing of Anglo-Saxon scholars by importance, somewhere toward the end, but certainly present, would be the Rev. T. Oswald Cockayne (1807-73). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anglo-Saxon England, Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius, King's College School, Oswald Cockayne, Bald's Leechbook, New York, Medieval Herbal Remedies, New Mexico, The Shrine, Henry Sweet, Middle English, Cotton Vitellius, Cockayne's Leechdoms, Herbarium Apulei, United States, Charles Singer, King Alfred, Rolls Series, Starcraft of Early England, Medieval England, Philological Society, British Museum, Houghton Library, Jerry Stannard, Joseph Bosworth New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 7 pages
- On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold on 4 pages
- Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline: History (Garland Library of Medieval Literature) by Helen Damico on 4 pages
- The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference by Lawrence Venuti on 4 pages
- A Modern Herbal (Volume 1, A-H): The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs & Trees with Their Modern Scientific Uses by Margaret Grieve on 4 pages
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- A History of Medicine, Second Edition by Lois N. Magner on page 194
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