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Author Chardonnens, László Sándor. author.

Title Anglo-Saxon prognostics : 900-1100 : study and texts / by Laszlo Sandor Chardonnens
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 605 pages) : illustrations
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 153
Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 3
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 153.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; v. 3.
Contents Figures, Plates, Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Prognostics Defined; Chapter Two The Manuscript Context; Chapter Three Language, Date and Place of Origin of English Manuscripts Containing Prognostics; Chapter Four Superstition and Prognostication; Chapter Five Intended Use of Prognostic Texts; Conclusion; Text Edition; Appendix One Handlist of Prognostics in English Manuscripts of the Ninth to Twelfth Centuries; Appendix Two Reference List; Appendix Three Concordance to Anglo-Saxon Prognostics; Appendix Four Values, Dates, Composition; Bibliography
Summary Offers an analysis of the status and function of the Anglo-Saxon prognostics in their manuscript context, a study of their introduction to and transmission in Anglo-Saxon England, and a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-592) and indexes
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Subject Prophecies.
Forecasting.
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.
Forecasting
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Old English
Forecasting
Prophecies
Voorspellingen.
Angelsaksen.
Prophezeiung -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte Mittelalter.
Engeland.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007023629
ISBN 9789047420422
904742042X
1281926345
9781281926340
9786611926342
6611926348