A History of Herbalism: Cure, Cook and Conjure.
- Author / Editor
- Kay, Emma.
A History of Herbalism: Cure, Cook and Conjure.
- Published
- Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword History, 2022. xxiv, 194 pp.
- Description
- Combines botanical history, magic and medicine, culinary arts, and herbalism, including a brief mention of Chaucer, observing that he "has been identified by his biographers as a bit of a botanist" (unattribted). Quotes the GP description of the Physician (in David Wright's translation) as, perhaps, "reflection of the importance of early medics, medics who benefitted from the sick, claiming to have studied medical literature and the works of classical philosophers, when in reality they often depended on superstition and dishonest practices."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
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