Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100

Study and Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15829-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 153/3, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1249 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

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.

Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, vol. 3

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chardonnens, Sándor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures, Plates, Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Prognostics Defined
2. The Manuscript Context
3. Language, Date and Place of Origin of English Manuscripts Containing Prognostics
4. Superstition and Prognostication
5. Intended Use of Prognostic Texts

Conclusion

TEXT EDITION
Introductions to the Texts
Edition of the Texts
Alphabet Prognostic
Apuleian Sphere
Birth Prognostics
Bloodletting Prognostic, Day of the Week
Brontologies
Dog Days
Dreambook
Egyptian Days
Lunaries
Month Prognosis
Moon Colour
Regimen
Sortes Sanctorum
Sunshine Prognostic
Unlucky Days
Wind Prognostic
Year Prognosis

Appendices
Appendix I. Handlist of Prognostics in English Manuscripts of the Ninth to Twelfth Centuries
Appendix II. Reference List
Appendix III. Concordance to Anglo-Saxon Prognostics
Appendix IV. Values, Dates, Composition

Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

László Sándor Chardonnens, Ph.D. (2006) in English, Leiden University, is lecturer at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on prognostics and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.