Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Bald’s Leechbook: A Medical Compendium 23
8. 2 Elves, the Demonic, and Leechbook III 57
9. 3 The Lacnunga and Insular Grammatica 95
10. 4 The Old English Herbarium and the Monastic Reform 130
11. 5 Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England 153
12. Appendices Extended Quotations
13. Appendix A: Bald’s Leechbook and its Latin Source Material 187
14. Appendix B: Parallel Passages in the Lacnunga and MS CCCC 41 194
15. Bibliography 199
16. Index 229