Anglo-Saxon prognostics : 900-1100 : study and texts / by Laszlo Sandor Chardonnens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chardonnens, László Sándor.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 153.

Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 153

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prophecies.

Forecasting.

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic material in its manuscript context, this book offers a novel approach to the status and purpose of prognostic texts in the early Middle Ages with particular attention to the Anglo-Saxon tradition. From this perspective, it emerges that prognostication in Anglo-Saxon England was not folkloric but a scholarly pursuit by monks not primarily interested in the medical aspects of prognostication. In addition, this book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin from Anglo-Saxon and early post-Conquest manuscripts. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History , volume 3

Contents:

Preliminary material / L.S. Chardonnens

Introduction / L.S. Chardonnens

Chapter One. Prognostics defined / L.S. Chardonnens

Chapter Two. The manuscript context / L.S. Chardonnens

Chapter Three. Language, date and place of origin of english manuscripts containing prognostics / L.S. Chardonnens

Chapter Four. Superstition and prognostication / L.S. Chardonnens

Chapter Five. Intended Use Of Prognostic texts / L.S. Chardonnens

Conclusion / L.S. Chardonnens

Text edition / L.S. Chardonnens

Appendix One. Handlist of prognostics in english manuscripts of the ninth to twelfth centuries / L.S. Chardonnens

Appendix Two. Reference list / L.S. Chardonnens

Appendix Three. Concordance to anglo-saxon prognostics / L.S. Chardonnens

Appendix Four. Values, dates, composition / L.S. Chardonnens

Bibliography / L.S. Chardonnens

Index of names / L.S. Chardonnens

Index of subjects / L.S. Chardonnens.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-92634-5

9786611926342

90-474-2042-X

OCLC:

608431976

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004158290.i-608 DOI