Anglo-Saxon learning and intellectual import from the Middle East and Northern Africa

Learn more about the inspiring story of Theodore and Hadrian, two scholars from Northern Africa and the Middle East, who made their way to early medieval England! We also discuss the origins of some Anglo-Saxon medical texts (what's up with all the snakes!?) and the engimatic prognostic texts!

This is the last of four videos on cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa and the Middle East. This video series is sponsored by Leiden University's Jusitce, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion [JEDI] fund.

Script and on camera: Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck
Camera and editing: Thomas Vorisek, Leiden University

Image credits:
Drawings: Thijs Porck (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Manuscript image Aldhelm: The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CCCC MS 326, p. 5 (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
Manuscript image Leiden Glossary: Leiden Glossary (Leiden University Libraries, VLQ 69)
Manuscript images from Old English medical texts: Courtesy of the British Library Board, London, British Library, Harley MS 585, ff. 30v, 46r, 190r; Cotton Vitellius C.iii, ff. 32v, 49r; Royal MS 12 D.xvii, ff. 105v-106r; Tiberius A.iii, ff. 28v-29r
Image of viperine water snake: Wikimedia commons, Christian Ferrer (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Image of horned viper: Wikimedia commons, Bernard Dupont (CC BY-SA 2.0)
JEDI Fund logo: Art by See you Sioe