Medieval Herbal Remedies: The Old English Herbarium and Early-Medieval Medicine

by Anne Van Arsdall

Book Overview

Featured here is a modern translation of a medieval herbal, with a study showing how this technical treatise on herbs was turned into a literary curiosity in the nineteenth century. The contours of this second edition replicate the first; however, it has been revised and updated throughout to reflect new scholarship and new findings. New information is presented on Oswald Cockayne, the nineteenth-century philologist who first translated the Old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367753774
• ISBN13: 9780367753771
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"