The International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England has announced the winner of its 2025 award for Best Edition or Translation: Medical Writings from Early Medieval England, Volume I: The Old English Herbal, Lacnunga, and Other Texts, edited and translated by John D. Niles and Maria A. D’Aronco.
“Niles and D’Aronco’s work is the first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English medical texts to be published since Cockayne’s Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England in 1864-1866, and offers a new and welcome presentation of these fascinating and important texts informed by the most recent scholarship on early medieval medicine, social history, popular religion, and literary and manuscript studies.”
