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Cloud of Unknowing : And Other Works

By: A. C. SPEARING

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Penguin USA: March 2002

Seller ID: 140076

ISBN: 0140447628

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ's Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language. Drawing upon radically different traditions, it is a rich work full of intriguing contradictions that speaks to us with liveliness and wit even today. The unknown author, thought to be a priest and Carthusian monk, is also believed to have written the other three works in this volume: The Mysti...
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Old English Medical Remedies: Mandrake, Wormwood and Raven's Eye

By: Sinead Spearing

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Pen and Sword: May 2018

Seller ID: 148109

ISBN: 1526711702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In 9th century England Bishop lfheah the Bald is dabbling with magic. By collecting folk remedies from pagan women he risks his reputation. Yet posterity has been kind, as from the pages of Bald's book a remedy has been found that cures the superbug MRSA where modern antibiotics have failed. Within a few months of this discovery a whole new area of medical research called Ancientbiotics has been created to discover further applications for these remedies.
Yet, what will science make of the elves, hags and nightwalkers which also stalk the pages of Bald's book and its companion piece Lacnu...
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Author:A. C. SPEARING

Cloud of Unknowing : And Other Works

Old English Medical Remedies: Mandrake, Wormwood and Raven's Eye