Foods for Body and Soul: The Application of Late Antique Regimen in Old English Medical Texts
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.HDL-EB.5.143388" target="_blank" >10.1484/M.HDL-EB.5.143388</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Foods for Body and Soul: The Application of Late Antique Regimen in Old English Medical Texts
Original language description
This chapter explores the relationship between food and medicine by asking how the dietary prescriptions found with the Old English text known as Bald's Leechbook conform to and transmit the late antique theory of dietetics or medical regimen, that is, the general lifestye guidance given by physicians to exercise eat, drink, sleep, bathe, and even engage in sexual intercourse according to the theoretical principles of Galenic Hippocratism. The Old English medical compilation known as Bald's Leechbook survives fom a single tenth century manuscript, making it the oldest vernacular medical compilation in Western Europe. This item demonstrates the surprisingly sophisticated engagement of early medieval physicians with Classical learning, while also highlighting the climatic and linguistic difficulties in the adaptation of ancient Mediterranean practices to early medieval North-western Europe.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Cultivating the Eath, Nurturing the Body and Soul: Daily Life in Early Medieval England
ISBN
978-2-503-61193-8
Number of pages of the result
27
Pages from-to
267-293
Number of pages of the book
336
Publisher name
Brepols
Place of publication
Turnhout
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