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Anglicanus Ortus: A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century
Henry Of Huntingdon
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Description for Anglicanus Ortus: A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century
Hardcover. A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century. 600 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Black, Winston. This book presents the first English verse translation of Henry of Huntingdon's recently-discovered Anglicanus ortus, opening a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of poetry and the knowledge of medicine in medieval England. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3H; DCF; VXHT. Dimension: 238 x 154 x 42. Weight: 984.
Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon, England (c 1088–c 1154) has been admired for centuries as the author of the monumental Historia Anglorum. The recent discovery of the Anglicanus ortus opens a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of poetry and the knowledge of medicine in medieval England. Written entirely in Latin verse, the Anglicanus ortus describes the medicinal uses of 160 different herbs, spices and vegetables. Henry drew on centuries of learned medicine to compose this work, employing the medical knowledge of ancient authors like Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides and of ... Read more
Henry, archdeacon of Huntingdon, England (c 1088–c 1154) has been admired for centuries as the author of the monumental Historia Anglorum. The recent discovery of the Anglicanus ortus opens a new window onto this important English author as well as onto the uses of poetry and the knowledge of medicine in medieval England. Written entirely in Latin verse, the Anglicanus ortus describes the medicinal uses of 160 different herbs, spices and vegetables. Henry drew on centuries of learned medicine to compose this work, employing the medical knowledge of ancient authors like Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides and of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bodleian Library
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851242849
SKU
V9781851242849
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99-12
About Henry Of Huntingdon
Winston Black is the Haslam Postdoctoral Fellow for the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research and publications focus on the teaching and transmission of medicine and law in the High Middle Ages, particularly the composition and transmission of Latin didactic and mnemonic poetry.
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