The botanical lexicon of the Old English Herbarium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9350607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Amalia D’Aronco (University of Udine, corresponding author), Maria Amalia D'Aronco |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Pages | 15-33 |
| Publication date | 1988-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglo-Saxon England (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-6751 • E-ISSN: 1474-0532 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0263675100003999 |
| OpenAlex | W2091257464 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Recent research has established beyond question that, in the study of medicine at least, Anglo-Saxon England was far from being ‘a backwater in which superstition flourished until the mainstream of more rational and advanced Salernitan practices flowed into the country in late medieval times’. On the contrary, Anglo-Saxon medicine was at least at the same level as that of contemporary European schools. In ninth-century England the medical works inherited by ‘post-classical Latin medical literature (which included translations and epitomes of Greek and Byzantine medical authorities)’ were not only well known, but served as the basis for original reworking and compilation, as the example of the Læceboc shows. More important, it was in pre-Conquest England that, for the first time in Europe, medical treatises were either compiled in or translated into a vernacular language rather than being composed in Latin or Greek. Ancient medicine made substantial use of drugs obtained from plants; and therefore, since the sources of Anglo-Saxon medical lore were in Latin (or in Greek: but invariably known through the medium of Latin), it is not surprising that most medicinal herbs used in the preparation of Old English prescriptions were not indigenous to England or even to continental Germany. And since such medicinal herbs were not indigenous to northern Europe, it is evident that, in using them, speakers of vernacular languages were obliged to create a vocabulary appropriate to denote them
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Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England
Waldbäume und kulturpflanzen im germanishcen altertum
Old English Glosses in the Épinal-Erfurt glossary
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England
Altenglisches Etymologisches Worterbuch
Anglo-Saxon Plant Remedies and the Anglo-Saxons
The origin of the so-called plan of St Gall
A supplement to Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon
The sources of medical knowledge in Anglo-Saxon England
Bald's Leechbook
Variant versions of Old English medical remedies and the compilation of Bald's Leechbook
Æthelwold's translation of the Regula Sancti Benedicti and its Latin exemplar
Problems of Old English Lexicography
The Plan of St. Gall”
Lexique des termes de botanique en latin
The origin of Standard Old English and Æthelwold's school at Winchester
Medicine in Medieval England
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |