Dr CHRISTINA LEE's Outputs (12)

Menace or Medicine: What to do with Nettles? (2024)
Book Chapter
Connelly, E., & Lee, C. 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.

Embroidered narratives (2022)
Book Chapter
Lee, C. (2023). Embroidered narratives. In R. Norris, R. Stephenson, & R. Trilling (Eds.), Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721462

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.

A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration (2022)
Journal Article
Connelly, E., Lee, C., Furner-Pardoe, J., del Genio, C. I., & Harrison, F. (2022). A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration. Patterns, 3(12), Article 100632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100632

Collaborations that cross traditional boundaries between disciplines in STEM and the arts and humanities open up exciting research possibilities. In our team’s case, we combined expertise in historical manuscripts, data science, and microbiology to e... Read More about A case study of the Ancientbiotics collaboration.

Trauma in Medieval Society (2018)
Book
Turner, W. J., & Lee, C. (Eds.). (2018). Trauma in Medieval Society. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004363786

Trauma in Medieval Society is an edited collection of articles from a variety of scholars on the history of trauma and the traumatised in medieval Europe. Looking at trauma as a theoretical concept, as part of the literary and historical lives of med... Read More about Trauma in Medieval Society.

12 Healing Words: St Guthlac and the Trauma of War (2018)
Book Chapter
Lee, C. (2018). 12 Healing Words: St Guthlac and the Trauma of War. In C. Lee, & W. Turner (Eds.), Trauma in the Medieval society (259-273). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004363786_013

Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes (2016)
Book Chapter
Lee, C. (2016). Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes. In M. C. Hyer, & J. Frederick (Eds.), Textiles, Text, Intertext: essays in honour of Gale R. Owen-Crocker. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer

A 1,000-year-old antimicrobial remedy with antistaphylococcal activity (2015)
Journal Article
Harrison, F., Roberts, A., Gabrilska, R., Rumbaugh, K., Lee, C., & Diggle, S. P. (2015). A 1,000-year-old antimicrobial remedy with antistaphylococcal activity. mBio, 6(4), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01129-15

Plant-derived compounds and other natural substances are a rich potential source of compounds that kill or attenuate pathogens that are resistant to current antibiotics. Medieval so- cieties used a range of these natural substances to treat condition... Read More about A 1,000-year-old antimicrobial remedy with antistaphylococcal activity.

Costumes and contact : evidence for Scandinavian women in the Irish Sea region (2015)
Book Chapter
Lee, C. (2015). Costumes and contact : evidence for Scandinavian women in the Irish Sea region. In H. Clarke, & R. Johnson (Eds.), The Vikings in Ireland and Beyond: Before and After the Battle of Clontarf (284-296). Dublin: Four Courts

Abled, disabled, enabled (2014)
Journal Article

Invisible enemies (2014)
Book Chapter
Lee, C. (2014). Invisible enemies. In C. Lee, & S. Crawford (Eds.), Social Dimensions of Medieval Disease and DisabilityArchaeopress

Healing runes
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jesch, J., & Lee, C. (2017, August). Healing runes. Presented at 18th Viking Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark