The Auchinleck Manuscript and Fourteenth-Century Lay Piety

Clerical Dissent, Popular Piety, and Sanctity in Fourteenth-Century Peterborough: The Cult of Laurence of Oxford

Young hands, old books: Drawings by children in a fourteenth-century manuscript, LJS MS. 361

This article scrutinises three marginal drawings in LJS 361, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It first considers the provenance of the manuscript, questioning how it got into the hands of children. Then, it combines developmental psychology with close examination of the material evidence to develop a list of criteria to att...

Mortality in fourteenth-century Exeter.

For many years, pioneer work has begun to uncover the history of mortality in England during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, before the Black Death. Nearly a hundred years ago, Creighton collected chronicle references to outbreaks of disease and mortality in his History ofepidemics in England.' In 1948 and 1966, J. C. Russell analysed the inquisitions post mortem to reveal patter...

Doctor versus patient: two fourteenth-century lawsuits.

Tim medieval medical practitioner, like his fellows in every age, was vulnerable to accusations of negligence. The least fortunate, or perhaps the most negligent, might find themselves liable to public prosecution," despite some recognition that treatment was hazardous anyway.2 More commonly, the doctor might face a private lawsuit by a dissatisfied patient; a cursory glance through Talbot and ...

Fourteenth-century England, medical ethics, and the plague.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and the threat of bioterror attacks have raised questions about the role of the physician in response to epidemics. Modern medical ethics, with its precepts of beneficence, nonmaleficence, and respect for patient autonomy, focuses almost exclusively on the relationship between the docto...