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Suggestions For Further Reading and Browsing

Books and Articles

  • L. S. Chardonnens, Anglo Saxon Prognostics 900-1100, Leiden 2007
  • L. S. Chardonnens. “Two Newly Discovered Mantic Dream Alphabets in Medieval French” Medium Ævum 80,1,  2011, 211-216
  • L. S. Chardonnens  “Hemerology in Medieval Europe” In Books of Fate and Popular Culture in Early China, D. Harper and M. Kalinowski, eds. Leiden 2017, 373-406
  • L. S. Chardonnens, “The good and evill dates of the menth to worke in”: Lunaries in European Magic Manuscripts” International Journal of Divination & Prognostication 1 2019, 100-122
  • Seb Falk, The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science, New York 2020
  • Marjorie Harrington, “Science, Medicine, Prognostication: MS Digby 86 as a Household Almanac”  in S. Fein ed.  Interpreting MS Digby 86: A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century, Worcestershire 2019, 55-72.  
  • Tony Hunt, Writing the Future. Prognostic Texts of Medieval England. Paris 2013 
  • Tony Hunt, Old French Medical Texts. Paris 2011
  • Laurel Means, ed.  Medieval Lunar Astrology: A collection of Representative Middle English Texts, Lewiston 1993
  • Sophie Page, Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts, Toronto, Univ. of Toronto Press 2002
  • Melissa Reynolds, “The Sururgia of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England”, Social History of Medicine, 35, 1, February 2022, 144–169
  • Nancy Siriasi, Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine. Chicago 1990
  • E. Svenberg, De Latinska Lunaria: text och studier, Goteborg 1936
  • Irma Taavitsainen, Middle English Lunaries.  A Study of the Genre.  Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, XLVII. Helsinki 1988 
  • M. Teresa Tavormina, “Three Middle English Uroscopies” English Studies 91, 2010, 591-622
  • C. Weisser, “Lunare” Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon 5 l985, 1054-62.
  • C. Weisser, Studien zum mittelalterlichen Krankheitslunar,  Pattensen/ Wellm 1982

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