Whole, Holy, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic
UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los AngelesWhat does it mean, culturally speaking, to get sick? What makes a body healthy? This talk explores depictions of disease in medical remedies and healing charms from the medieval North Atlantic, a multilingual zone of intensive cultural interaction and exchange. These vivid texts allow us to better understand how medieval people thought about their own...