Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book

Anglo-saxon leechbooks.

The Vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon Kinship

Anglo-saxon Others in the Spanish Imagination

This paper aims to contribute to contemporary research on Spanish images of Englishness and thus on cross-cultural otherness. More precisely, it seeks to identify and describe the composite image of Anglo-Saxon Others as portrayed in ten nineteenth century Spanish history books and to critically discuss the results. Despite Anglo-Saxon England being a marginal issue for nineteenth century Spani...

The medical practitioner in Anglo-Saxon England.

Anglo - Saxon Medicine : Cures or Catastrophe ?

T historians and laypeople alike often look upon medicine from the Anglo-Saxon period (550-1066 A.D.) with horror and derision. One seems to conjure up images of dirty rags used to clean wounds, or ground-up dung ingested to cure a headache. When one examines the actual medical remedies of the time, however, useful cures can be found. The remedies in Anglo-Saxon medical texts are extremely inte...