This author delves into the fascinating and often bizarre medical history hidden in forgotten times and places. Their work brings to life the stories of past generations, their healing practices, and beliefs in supernatural causes for ailments, echoing our contemporary understandings. They explore how archaeological discoveries reveal previously unknown roles for women in ancient medicine, and how medieval records, often from women and monks, offer unique glimpses into daily lives and remedies. Their writing is a journey into the past, showing how human experiences with illness and healing have transformed and endured through the ages.
Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of essays on such poems as the Song of Roland, King Horn, Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, House of Fame and Troilus and Criseyde, the alliterative Morte Arthure, The Siege of Jerusalem, Purity, Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman.
In this pioneering work, Sinead Spearing draws on current archeological evidence, literature, folklore, case studies and original religious documentation to bring to life these forgotten healers - by doing so she exposes the elaborate conspiracy conceived
An extensive exploration of medical and psychological treatments from the Anglo-Saxons.