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Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii.

By R. M. Liuzza (Translator)
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By R. M. Liuzza (Translator)
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Edition and translation of prognostic guides and calendars, intended as an effort to foretell the future.

Winner of the Beatrice White Prize, 2013.

Medieval prognostic texts — a survival from the classical world — are the ancestors of modern almanacs; a means of predicting future events, they offer guidance on matters of everyday life, such as illness, childbirth, weather, agriculture, and the interpretation of dreams. They give fascinating insights into monastic life, medicine, pastoral car...

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