All Outputs (5)

Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles? (2024)
Book Chapter

This paper answers Strabo’s question of 'what to do with nettles' by discussing the worth of nettles in select research outcomes from a project which examined the potential medicinal qualities of nettles (restricted to Urtica dioica) inspired by ear... Read More about Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles?.

Embroidered narratives (2022)
Book Chapter

This essay will argue for the importance of embroidered textiles as artifacts that provide a unique window to the participation of women in Early Medieval England in the political, socio-economic, and intellectual life of the period.² Textile gifts p... Read More about Embroidered narratives.

12 Healing Words: St Guthlac and the Trauma of War (2018)
Book Chapter

Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes (2016)
Book Chapter

Invisible enemies (2014)
Book Chapter