AUDREY L MEANEY
Biographic Data
| ID | 5160879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | AUDREY L MEANEY |
| GIVEN NAMES | AUDREY L |
| FAMILY NAME | MEANEY |
| SIGNATURE | MEANEY A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Extra-Medical Elements in Anglo-Saxon Medicine
lfric (writing about ad 1000) decries the use of enchantments and witchcraft in healing; our hope should be in God. Each of the six extant medical texts in Old English contains elements which are not strictly medical, which I refer to as ‘extra’. I concentrate on the differing use of amulets, incantations, rituals and special exotic ingredients in the texts, ranging from the two translations from Latin in the Apuleius Complex, to the compilation …
The Practice of Medicine in England about the Year 1000
The paper begins with the medical practitioners of late Anglo-Saxon England, were apparently both physicians and surgeons, describing the kinds of ailments they are evidenced as treating. The majority were monastic; whether there were also lay medics is uncertain. Most Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical foundations appear to have had an infirmary, where sick monks or nuns, or those who were about to die, were looked after. Some infirmaries may have tende…
Exeter Book Riddle 57 (55) – a double solution
To offer a solution to Riddle 57 must seem to many like a fool rushing swiftly in where others have swallowed gnats – and raindrops, hailstones, thunderclouds, musical notes, bees and more. Yet for a long time I have been convinced that everyone else had got it wrong, and that the answer could only be ‘swifts’. On further investigation, it turned out that some scholars, indeed, had had the same idea – it was Moritz Trautmann's final solution, and…
Scyld Scefing and the dating of Beowulf - again
Ælfric's use of his sources in his homily on auguries
Variant versions of Old English medical remedies and the compilation of Bald's Leechbook
Over a hundred years ago, T. O. Cockayne published his Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England , in which he edited the texts of all the medical writings in Old English he could find. It is massive in its scope, and no modern scholar is ever likely to produce its equal. Yet we, metaphorically standing on Cockaynes's shoulders, and equipped with aids provided by more recent research, are able to examine more closely than he could som…
Æfric and Idolatry
Drift Seeds and the Brísingamen
Heimdall the Brisingamen, and it is usually thought to be a splendid necklace, the treasured possession of Freyja. In the Hasdrapa, however, the same object was called singasteinn, which is probably a mistake for *signasteinn 'magic stone, amulet,' and explained as hafnyra 'sea kidney.' Birger Pering argued cogently that this consisted of a girdle on which was suspended the seed of a West Indian plant, such as is carried to the coasts of Europe f…
Alfred, the Patriarch and the White Stone
THE manuscript BM Royal 12D xvii (Ker 264),1 which was copied at Winchester in the mid-tenth century, contains three books of medicine in Old English. There can be no doubt that the third book was originally a separate work; the first two, however, belong together, and are known as Bald's Leechbook because of the colophon in poor Latin Verse at the end of Book II, which names Bald as the (presumably first) owner. The date of compilation of Bald's…
Æthelweard, Ælfric, the Norse Gods and Northumbria
Woden in England: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
(1966). Woden in England: A Reconsideration of the Evidence. Folklore: Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 105-115
Alfred, the Patriarch and the White Stone
THE manuscript BM Royal 12D xvii (Ker 264),1 which was copied at Winchester in the mid-tenth century, contains three books of medicine in Old English. There can be no doubt that the third book was originally a separate work; the first two, however, belong together, and are known as Bald's Leechbook because of the colophon in poor Latin Verse at the end of Book II, which names Bald as the (presumably first) owner. The date of compilation of Bald's…
Woden in England: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
(1966). Woden in England: A Reconsideration of the Evidence. Folklore: Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 105-115
Æfric and Idolatry
The Practice of Medicine in England about the Year 1000
The paper begins with the medical practitioners of late Anglo-Saxon England, were apparently both physicians and surgeons, describing the kinds of ailments they are evidenced as treating. The majority were monastic; whether there were also lay medics is uncertain. Most Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical foundations appear to have had an infirmary, where sick monks or nuns, or those who were about to die, were looked after. Some infirmaries may have tende…
Exeter Book Riddle 57 (55) – a double solution
To offer a solution to Riddle 57 must seem to many like a fool rushing swiftly in where others have swallowed gnats – and raindrops, hailstones, thunderclouds, musical notes, bees and more. Yet for a long time I have been convinced that everyone else had got it wrong, and that the answer could only be ‘swifts’. On further investigation, it turned out that some scholars, indeed, had had the same idea – it was Moritz Trautmann's final solution, and…
Ælfric's use of his sources in his homily on auguries
Woden in England: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
(1966). Woden in England: A Reconsideration of the Evidence. Folklore: Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 105-115
Æthelweard, Ælfric, the Norse Gods and Northumbria
Alfred, the Patriarch and the White Stone
THE manuscript BM Royal 12D xvii (Ker 264),1 which was copied at Winchester in the mid-tenth century, contains three books of medicine in Old English. There can be no doubt that the third book was originally a separate work; the first two, however, belong together, and are known as Bald's Leechbook because of the colophon in poor Latin Verse at the end of Book II, which names Bald as the (presumably first) owner. The date of compilation of Bald's…
Drift Seeds and the Brísingamen
Heimdall the Brisingamen, and it is usually thought to be a splendid necklace, the treasured possession of Freyja. In the Hasdrapa, however, the same object was called singasteinn, which is probably a mistake for *signasteinn 'magic stone, amulet,' and explained as hafnyra 'sea kidney.' Birger Pering argued cogently that this consisted of a girdle on which was suspended the seed of a West Indian plant, such as is carried to the coasts of Europe f…
Variant versions of Old English medical remedies and the compilation of Bald's Leechbook
Over a hundred years ago, T. O. Cockayne published his Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England , in which he edited the texts of all the medical writings in Old English he could find. It is massive in its scope, and no modern scholar is ever likely to produce its equal. Yet we, metaphorically standing on Cockaynes's shoulders, and equipped with aids provided by more recent research, are able to examine more closely than he could som…
Æfric and Idolatry
Ælfric's use of his sources in his homily on auguries
Scyld Scefing and the dating of Beowulf - again
Exeter Book Riddle 57 (55) – a double solution
To offer a solution to Riddle 57 must seem to many like a fool rushing swiftly in where others have swallowed gnats – and raindrops, hailstones, thunderclouds, musical notes, bees and more. Yet for a long time I have been convinced that everyone else had got it wrong, and that the answer could only be ‘swifts’. On further investigation, it turned out that some scholars, indeed, had had the same idea – it was Moritz Trautmann's final solution, and…
The Practice of Medicine in England about the Year 1000
The paper begins with the medical practitioners of late Anglo-Saxon England, were apparently both physicians and surgeons, describing the kinds of ailments they are evidenced as treating. The majority were monastic; whether there were also lay medics is uncertain. Most Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical foundations appear to have had an infirmary, where sick monks or nuns, or those who were about to die, were looked after. Some infirmaries may have tende…
Extra-Medical Elements in Anglo-Saxon Medicine
lfric (writing about ad 1000) decries the use of enchantments and witchcraft in healing; our hope should be in God. Each of the six extant medical texts in Old English contains elements which are not strictly medical, which I refer to as ‘extra’. I concentrate on the differing use of amulets, incantations, rituals and special exotic ingredients in the texts, ranging from the two translations from Latin in the Apuleius Complex, to the compilation …
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