an edition and translation of texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii
Edición de la obra Anglo-Saxon prognostics
| Autor | R. M. Liuzza |
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| Editorial | D.S. Brewer |
| Fecha de publicación | 2011 |
| Lugar | Cambridge |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 293 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781843842552 |
| ISBN-10 | 1843842556 |
| OCLC | 649804116 |
| LCCN | 2011381327 |
| Serie | Anglo-Saxon texts -- 8 · Anglo-Saxon texts -- 8. |
| Número de Cutter | L783a |
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"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.