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Early Medieval Medicine in Context : Transmission, Translation and Transformation / Edited by Debby Banham, Claire Burridge and Lea Olsan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Health and healing in the Middle Ages ; v. 9.
- Health and Healing in the Middle Ages ; Volume 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (323 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk : York Medieval Press, 2025.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Note on Translation
- Introduction
- Part I: Transmission: Greek, Old English and Latin
- 1 Paul of Aegina on Venomous Animals: An Introduction and Translation
- 2 The Beginnings of English Medicine: Confluences and Crosscurrents in Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook III
- 3 Early Medieval Recipe Collections: Continuity, Change and the Carolingian Context
- Part II: Translation: Words into Practices
- 4 Charms in Late Antique and Early Medieval Medicine: Transmission and Transformation
- 5 Pharmaceutical Tools in the Early Middle Ages: Knowledge and Practice in Medical Recipes
- 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
- 7 Use and Elaboration of Latin Sources in Later Anglo-Saxon England: The Peri didaxeon
- 8 Signs and Portents: Epidemic Disease and the Supernatural in Icelandic Sagas
- Afterword
- Audrey Meaney: An Appreciation
- Audrey Meaney and the Study of Early Medieval Medicine
- Memories of Audrey Meaney
- A Bibliography of Audrey Meaney's Work
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
- Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 03, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Banham, Debby Early Medieval Medicine in Context
- ISBN:
- 9781805438793
- 1805438794
- 9781805438786
- 1805438786
- Publisher Number:
- 40033074151
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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