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Medieval Welsh Medical Texts (eBook, PDF)

Volume One: The Recipes

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This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of the corpus of medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. These offer practical treatments for a variety of everyday conditions such as toothache, constipation and gout. The recipes have been edited from the four earliest collections of Welsh medical texts in manuscript, which date from the late fourteenth century. A series of notes provides sources and analogues for the recipes, demonstrating their relationship with the European medical tradition. The identification of herbal ingredients in the recipes is based on pre-modern plant-name glossaries rather than modern dictionaries, and has led to new interpretations of many of the recipes. Comprehensive glossaries allow the reader to find any recipe based on the ingredients and equipment used in it or the condition treated. This new interpretation of these texts clearly shows that they are not unique, but rather form part of the medical tradition that was common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786835499
• Artikelnr.: 67582975

Autorenporträt

The work is aimed at a scholarly audience, but there may be a good deal of interest from a more general readership in Wales as well given the subject matter. The apparatus in in English allowing the work to be used by non-Welsh speaking audiences, and the Middle-Welsh/English glossary should allow these readers to make full use of the indexes.