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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 prov...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Old English Latín |
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Cambridge, UK : Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. :
D.S. Brewer ; Imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.,
2010.
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| Colección: | Anglo-Saxon texts ;
8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. An 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"--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846159282 1846159288 1280377720 9781280377723 |