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Luft, Diana, Medieval Welsh medical texts, 2 vols, vol. 1, Cardiff: University Press of Wales, 2020.

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Volume
1
Work
Medieval Welsh medical texts - vol. 1 (2 vols)
Place
Cardiff
Publisher
University Press of Wales
Year
2020
Online resources
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Abstract (cited)
This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of the corpus of medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. These offer practical treatments for a variety of everyday conditions such as toothache, constipation and gout. The recipes have been edited from the four earliest collections of Welsh medical texts in manuscript, which date from the late fourteenth century. A series of notes provides sources and analogues for the recipes, demonstrating their relationship with the European medical tradition. The identification of herbal ingredients in the recipes is based on pre-modern plant-name glossaries rather than modern dictionaries, and has led to new interpretations of many of the recipes. Comprehensive glossaries allow the reader to find any recipe based on the ingredients and equipment used in it or the condition treated. This new interpretation of these texts clearly shows that they are not unique, but rather form part of the medical tradition that was common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.
Subjects and topics
Headings
Welsh medicine and medical writing 14th century
Approaches
textual editing textual translation
Sources
Manuscripts
History, society and culture
Agents
Physicians of MyddfaiPhysicians of Myddfai
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Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
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