Anglo-Saxon prognostics: an edition and translation of texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.III

"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. [...] This volume p...

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Sprache:English
Old English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Brewer 2011
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Anglo-Saxon texts 8
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Zusammenfassung:"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. [...] 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."--Back cover
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-290) and index
Introduction. Prognostics in Anglo-Saxon and related manuscripts ; Types of prognostics in T ; Prognostics as a genre ; Conclusion ; Note on editorial principles -- Anglo-Saxon prognostics : texts and translation
Beschreibung:XI, 293 S.
ISBN:9781843842552

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