
Anglo-Saxon Prognostics
An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii.
D.S. Brewer (Publisher)
Published on 20. January 2011
Book
Hardback
305 pages
978-1-84384-255-2 (ISBN)
Description
Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars, intended as an effort to foretell the future.
Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, 2013.
Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams. They give fascinating insights into monastic life, medicine, pastoral care, the transformations of classical learning in the middleages, and the complex interconnections between orthodox religion, popular belief, science and magic.
This volume provides the first full critical edition, with a facing-page translation, of a diverse and peculiar group of prognostic guides and calendars, in Latin and Old English, found in an eleventh-century manuscript from Christ Church, Canterbury; they are collated with related versions in both Anglo-Saxon and continental manuscripts. A lengthy introduction and commentary examine the transmission and translation of these texts, and shed light on their origins and uses in late Anglo-Saxon monastic culture.
ROY LIUZZA is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, 2013.
Medieval prognostic texts - a survival from the classical world - are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams. They give fascinating insights into monastic life, medicine, pastoral care, the transformations of classical learning in the middleages, and the complex interconnections between orthodox religion, popular belief, science and magic.
This volume provides the first full critical edition, with a facing-page translation, of a diverse and peculiar group of prognostic guides and calendars, in Latin and Old English, found in an eleventh-century manuscript from Christ Church, Canterbury; they are collated with related versions in both Anglo-Saxon and continental manuscripts. A lengthy introduction and commentary examine the transmission and translation of these texts, and shed light on their origins and uses in late Anglo-Saxon monastic culture.
ROY LIUZZA is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Reviews / Votes
A handsome and scholarly [volume] that will facilitate research into this fascinating corner of Anglo-Saxon learning. * SPECULUM * Liuzza's edition is a major contribution, not only to the study of Anglo-Saxon prognostics themselves, but to our understanding of pre-Conquest intellectual culture more generally. [...] a significant scholarly achievement, one which will help open up for Anglo-Saxonists a new area of study. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
625 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84384-255-2 (9781843842552)
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Anglo-Saxon Prognostics
An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii.
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Content
Preface
List of Manuscripts Referred to by Sigla
Introduction
Note on Editorial Principles
Texts
Commentary
Glossary
Bibliography
List of Manuscripts Referred to by Sigla
Introduction
Note on Editorial Principles
Texts
Commentary
Glossary
Bibliography