‘A wildly unrealistic Welsh recipe collection from around 1400 identified saffron, one of the most expensive spices, as a way “to be happy always” but warned against eating too much of it, lest “you die of happiness”.’ Barbara Newman on medieval wellness. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Barbara Newman · Beasts with Ravening Whelps: Helthe and WeltheSelf-Help from the Middle Ages raises some provocative questions about historical figures. Was Thomas Aquinas truly a...www.lrb.co.uk