All Outputs (2)

Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles? (2024)
Book Chapter
Connelly, E., & Lee, C. (in press). Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles?. In Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions. Brepols Publishers

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?.

First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England (2024)
Journal Article
Fiorin, E., Roberts, C. A., Baldoni, M., Connelly, E., Lee, C., Ottoni, C., & Cristiani, E. (2024). First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 2452. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52422-8

Leprosy was one of the most outwardly visible diseases in the European Middle Ages, a period during which leprosaria were founded to provide space for the sick. The extant documentary evidence for leprosy hospitals, especially in relation to diet, th... Read More about First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England.