Secular learning in Anglo-Saxon England : exploring the vernacular / edited by László Sándor Chardonnens and Bryan Carella.

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The fruits of Anglo-Saxon learning continue to captivate Anglo-Saxonists and scholars of natural science and medicine, witness recent publications such as Martin Blake's edition of Ælfric's De temporibus anni (2009), and the proceedings of the Storehouses of Wholesome Learning and Leornungcræft projects. In 1992, Stephanie Hollis and Michael Wright took stock of secular learning in the vernacular, in their monumental annotated bibliography Old English Prose of Secular Learning . The present volume surveys and evaluates advances in the study of Anglo-Saxon secular learning from the past two dec.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; Works Cited in Abbreviated Form; Introducing Old English Secular Learning; Anglo-Saxon Secular Learning and the Vernacular: an Overview; Slavery, Learning and the Law of Marriage in Alfred's Mosaic Prologue; The Vernacularization of Encyclopaedic Notes in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts; The Burning Sun: Landscape and Knowledge in Exodus; The Prose and the Verse Menologium in the Tradition of Elementary Computistical Education in Late Anglo-Saxon England; 'For a Broken Limb': Fracture Treatment in Anglo-Saxon England.

Wið dweorh: an Anglo-Saxon Remedy for Fever in its Cultural and Manuscript SettingThe Textual Tradition of Heavenly Letter Charms in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts; The Old English Alphabet Prognostic as a Prototype for Mantic Alphabets; Contributors; Index of Manuscripts.

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