Popular Medicine in 13th-Century England: Introduction and Texts

by Tony Hunt

'Fills a big gap. It is concerned with recipe collections, perhaps the least studied of all medical documents, and includes - chants, charms and prayers, as well as herbal remedies for a variety of ailments.' 'Popular Medicinesucceeds in two ways: the quality of its philological scholarship confirms the growing academic respectability of an interest in medical history, and the abundance of primary material made available for the first time in print...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859912906
• ISBN13: 9780859912907
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"