Monthly Archives: January 2015
Arthritis, the ‘ache and euel in fingres’, and medieval scribes
This plant is Ruta graveolens, known as ‘common rue’. It is native to the Balkans, but grows in many other places around the world, including the South of France. It was in France that ‘Macer Floridus’, a pseudonym used by Odo of Meung, lived towards the end of the eleventh century. He drew together […]