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Chardonnens, László Sándor, Anglo-Saxon prognostics, 900-1100: study and texts, Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, 3, Leiden: Brill, 2007.
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Anglo-Saxon prognostics, 900-1100: study and texts
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Leiden
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Brill
Year
2007
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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.
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