The Medieval Space: Early Medieval Documents as Stages

Epistolary Documents in High-Medieval History- Writing

Nutrition and the Early-Medieval Diet

Texts and documents. A medieval Arab medical certificate.

Among the Geniza writings preserved in Cambridge University Library's TaylorSchechter Collection is a medieval Arabic medical certificate which has not hitherto been published or studied. Class-marked as T-S NS 327.51, this document is the earliest medical certificate known to me and is of sufficient interest to merit publication. Since the condition to which the certificate relates is leprosy,...

What's Wrong with Early Medieval Medicine?

The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...

Slaves and Warriors in Early Medieval

The investigation of medieval slavery is still rooted in an approach first laid down by the likes of Adam Smith and John Millar over two hundred years ago. They conceptualised history as a series of stages through which societies moved, driven by the motor of increasing economic sophistication. In this conceptualisation, slavery was an economic institution and its decline in Britain during the ...