caa a22 4500 386310564 CHVBK 20180307111543.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263675100004075 doi S0263675100004075 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263675100004075 Cameron M. L. Dalhousie University Anglo-Saxon medicine and magic [Elektronische Daten] [M. L. Cameron] When J. R. R. Tolkein criticized the critics of Beowulf, it was because ‘Beowulf has been used as a quarry of fact and fancy far more assiduously than it has been studied as a work of art.' The Old English medical documents have suffered from a similar treament in that critics have rarely dealt with them primarily as medical documents. So far as I know, none of them has been criticized primarily as a medical work, to the extent that its recipes and remedies have been evaluated for their usefulness as medical treatments. But they have been searched, discussed, emended and evaluated as sources for the study of paganism, magic, superstitions, Christianity and the influence of Christian and Latin culture on the primitive beliefs of the Teutonic peoples, and as indicators of the spread of Greek and Latin science among the Northern peoples. Yet they were all originally conceived, used and finally preserved in writing as medical documents. They deserve consideration for what they were intended to be. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988 Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 17(1988-12), 191-215 0263-6751 17<191 1988 17 ASE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004075 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263675100004075 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cameron M. L. Dalhousie University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglo-Saxon England Cambridge University Press 17(1988-12), 191-215 0263-6751 17<191 1988 17 ASE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge