Wow! eBook
Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Anglo-Saxon Medicine
Author(s): Anne Van Arsdall (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: October 6, 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 260 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780415884037
- ISBN-13: 9780415884037
Book Description
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Van Arsdall’s translation is lucid, idiomatic, and captures the matter-of-fact tone of the original
.” — Faith Wallis, McGill University, Speculum
“a welcome contribution to the study of medicine in Anglo-Saxon England and will be very useful for both reference and teaching.” — Faith Wallis, McGill University, Speculum
About the Author
Van Arsdall, Anne
