Cultivating the Earth, Nurturing the Body and Soul: Daily Life in Early Medieval England. Essays in Honour of Debby Banham

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Hardback, Pages: 340, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 4 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503611938. Summary How did food impact social relationships in early medieval England? What cultivation practices were followed, to produce the best possible food supplies? What was the cultural significance of bread? How was the human body nourished? When sickness inevitably occurred, where did one go, and who was consulted for healing? And how was spiritual health also protected? The essays gathered together in this exciting volume draw on a range of different disciplines, from early medieval economic and social history, to experimental archaeology and medieval medicine, to offer a unique overview into day-to-day life in England nearly two millennia ago. Taking as their starting point the broad research interests of the volume's honorand, Dr Debby Banham, contributors here offer new insights into the reproduction and ritual use of vernacular charms, examine the collation and translation of medieval medicine, elucidate monastic economies and production, and uncover the circumstances behind the production and transmission of medical manuscripts in early medieval England. Presenting new insights into agricultural practices and animal husbandry, monastic sign language and materia medica, plant knowledge and medical practices, the chapters within this volume not only offer a fitting tribute to Banham's own groundbreaking work, but also shed new light on what it meant to nurture both body and soul in early medieval England. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction Christine Voth Part I. Cultivating the Earth Medieval Ecology, Production, and Service Feeding Lords and Kings: Feorm in Anglo-Saxon England Rosamond Faith Monastic Economies in Late Anglo-Saxon England Rory Naismith Were there Hospitals in England before the Normans? Peregrine Horden Part II. Cultivating the Earth Performance and Ritual Women, Bread, and the Supernatural in Early Medieval Culture Martha Bayless Field Research: Imagining and Re-Creating Anglo-Saxon Agricultural Protection Formulas Karen Louise Jolly From Literary Texts to Performative Rituals in Early Medieval England Lea Olsan Part III. Nurturing the Body and Soul Medieval Medicine I: Vocabulary and Language Miracles of Lexicography: Honey from a Bumble Bee Maria Amalia D'Aronco Knowledge of the Spleen in the Leechbook Carole P. Biggam The Language of the Leechbooks: Revisiting the Tradition of Vernacular Medicine Christine Voth Part IV. Nurturing the Body and Soul Medieval Medicine II: Compilation and Compilers Foods for Body and Soul: The Application of Late Antique Regimen in Old English Medical Texts Conan Doyle 'To Provoke the Menses': Menstruation and Compilation in the Old English Herbarium and Medicina de quadrupedibus Bethany Christiansen The Antiquarian Behind the Old English Medical Texts Anne Van Arsdall and M.K.C. MacMahon Index 0 g.…

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Cultivating the Earth, Nurturing the Body and Soul: Daily Life in Early Medieval England. Essays in Honour of Debby Banham
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Christine Voth (ed)
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, Brepols, 2025
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