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Durham E-Theses Durham E-Theses NOT `FOR MEDICINAL USE ONLY' HEALTHCARE NARRATIVES IN SAINTS' LIVES FROM TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. HARGREAVES, BARBARA,MARY How to cite: HARGREAVES, BARBARA,MARY (2021) NOT `FOR MEDICINAL USE ONLY' HEALTHCARE NARRATIVES IN SAINTS' LIVES FROM TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND., Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13959/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 NOT ‘FOR MEDICINAL USE ONLY’ HEALTHCARE NARRATIVES IN SAINTS’ LIVES FROM TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND Barbara Mary Hargreaves 1 Abstract In recent decades scholarly interest in hagiographical works has allowed for an increasingly multifaceted interpretation of these texts. This has led to their being recognised as valuable sources in contributing to a broader understanding of the medieval period and its expression of sanctity. This thesis looks specifically at health-related narratives from twelfth-century English saints’ lives written by someone who knew the saint or obtained eye-witness testimony of them. Of the ten saints considered, three are hermits, one is lay and six are monastic. Of the hagiographers who can be identified, one is a secular cleric and the others are monks. In this study, the aim is to consider the detail of relevant accounts and show how, and why, the subject of ill-health was managed in a saint’s life. The topics that the hagiographers chose to write about are remarkably consistent across the century. Food, fever and death are constant subjects. The body of the saint is often a central feature, emaciated through fasting, suffering patiently, burning with fever or exalted to immutable white purity in death. Underlying tensions run through the narratives, shown as the writers sought to explicate seemingly incompatible features; the impact of sin, physical illness, debility and death when manifest within the person of a saint. While the focus of the accounts is unequivocally hagiographic, they also show evidence of the growth of medical science over the period, with an increasingly medicalised emphasis. The thesis argues that while the accounts may offer insight into medicine of the period, in order for any interpretation of the texts to be meaningful, they must be viewed first through the lens of hagiography, true to the purposes for which they were written, and not taken in isolation as pieces of medical history. 2 NOT ‘For MeDicinal Use Only’: Healthcare Narratives in Saints’ Lives from Twelfth-century EnglanD Barbara Hargreaves Thesis submitteD for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History Durham University 2020 3 Contents List of Illustrations 6 List of Tables 6 List of Abbreviations 7 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction 11 Chapter One: New Bodies 44 1.1 The Pregnancy and Delivery of the Nun of Watton 44 1.2 The Birth of a Saint 65 1.3 Resurrection bodies 68 Chapter Two: Food 85 2.1 Food Rules 87 2.2 A Balanced Diet 98 2.3 Fasting Practices and the Emaciated Body 105 2.4 In Sickness and in Health 113 2.5 The Lord’s Table 122 Chapter Three: Illness, Debility and Age 129 3.1 Humoral Medicine 129 3.2 Saturated and Suppurating Medicine 136 3.3 Women’s Problems 146 3.4 The Chronically-Ill Saint 152 3.5 Age and Infirmity 154 3.6 Nursing Care 162 3.7 Sickness and Strength 168 4 Chapter Four: Doctors’ Orders 173 4.1 Names, Numbers and Designations 175 4.2 Medical Doctors in the lives 180 4.3 The Holy Doctor 201 Chapter Five: Mortal Illness 214 5.1 Passing: the Death of Aelric 214 5.2 Principles and Practice: Monastic Death Ritual 219 5.3 Prognostication 228 5.4 Premortem Purgation 233 5.5 Posture and Positioning 245 5.6 Pushing and Pulling: Inexorable Death 249 5.7 Poised Between Two Worlds 252 Conclusion 256 Bibliography 262 5 List of Illustrations Image 1: British Library, MS Royal 6 E VI, vol 2, fol. 301r 40 ‘Bishop Teaching Clerics with Leprosy’ from James le Palmer, Omne Bonum, fourteenth century, England Image 2: British Library, MS Yates Thompson 13, fol. 157v 64 ‘The Abbess Delivered’ from The Taymouth Hours, fourteenth century, England Image 3: British Library, MS Harley Y 6, roundel 14 218 ‘The Death of Guthlac’ from The Life of Guthlac, late twelfth century, England Image 4: British Library, MS Yates Thompson 26, fol. 73 246 ‘The Death of Cuthbert’ from Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, twelfth century, Durham List of Tables Table 1: Saints’ lives, authors and dates of composition 12 Table 2: References to postmortem bodily changes described in the lives 68 Table 3: The ages of man 155 Table 4: References to medics in the lives 176 Table 5: Types of doctors in the lives 183 6 List of Abbreviations BR Benedict of Nursia, Regula Benedicti, ed. Dom Jean Neufville, Sources Chrétiennes, 181-182 (repr. The Liturgical Press: Collegeville, 1981). English translation in Benedict’s Rule: A Translation and Commentary, trans. T. G. Kardong (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1996) BSG Liber Sancti Gileberti, in The Book of St Gilbert, ed. R. Foreville and trans. G. Keir (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) GPA William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum Anglorum, ed. and trans. M. Winterbottom with the assistance of R. M. Thomson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) LC The Life of Christina of Markyate, ed. and trans. C. H. Talbot (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959) LG Reginald of Durham, Libellus de vita et miraculis S. Godrici, heremitae de Finchale, auctore Reginaldo monacho Dunelmensi, ed. J. Stephenson, Surtees Society 20 (1847). English translation in Margaret Coombe, Reginald of Durham's Latin Life of St Godric of Finchale (forthcoming: OUP, 2022) LSHA Gerald of Wales, Vita Sancti Hugonis, in Giraldus Cambrensis Opera, vol. VII, ed. J. F. Dimock (London: Longman & Co, 1877), pp. 81-147. English translation in Richard M. Loomis, The Life of Saint Hugh of Avalon Bishop of Lincoln 1186-1200 (Merchantville NJ: Evolution Publishing, 2014) LWal Jocelin of Furness, Vita Waldevi, in Vita auctore vel Joscelino, monacho Furnesiensi, in Acta Sanctorum Augusti I, ed. J. Carnandet (Paris, 1863-), 249D- 278E. English translation by G. J. McFadden, ‘The Life of St. Waldef, Abbot of Melrose, by Jocelin of Furness’, in An Edition and Translation of the Life of St. 7 Waldef, Abbot of Melrose, by Jocelin of Furness (PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 1952), pp. 201-357 LWH John of Forde, The Life of Wulfric of Haselbury, by John Abbot of Ford, ed. Maurice Bell, Somerset Record Society, 47 (1933). English translation in Pauline Matarasso, The Life of Wulfric of Haselbury, Anchorite (Collegeville, Minnesota: Cistercian Publications, 2011) MCL Lanfranc, The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc, ed. and trans. David Knowles and Christopher N. L. Brooke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) MLSH The Metrical Life of Saint Hugh, ed. and trans. Charles Garton (Lincoln Cathedral: Holywood Press, 1986) MV Adam of Eynsham, Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis, ed. D. Douie and D. H. Farmer, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961-62) NW Ailred of Rievaulx, De Sanctimoniali de Wattun, PL 195, 789C-796D. English translation in John Boswell, The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance (London: Penguin, 1989), pp. 452-8 PL Patrologia Cursus Completus: Series Latina, 217 vols, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris, 1844-64) RC Regularis Concordia Anglicae Nationis Monachorum Sanctimonialiumque, ed. and trans. Thomas Symons (Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1953) SMQS Turgot, Vita Sanctae Margaretae Scotorum Reginae in Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 5325, ed. James Raine, in Symeonis Dunelmensis opera et collectanea 1, ed. J. Hodgson Hinde, Surtees Society, 51 (Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons, 1868), pp. 234-54. English translation in Catherine 8 Keene, Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots: A Life in Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 136-221 VA Eadmer, Vita Sancti Anselmi Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, ed. and trans. R. W. Southern (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972) VAil Walter Daniel, The Life of Ailred of Rievaulx, trans. and intro. F. M. Powicke (Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1950) VWulf William of Malmesbury, Vita Wulfstani in William of Malmesbury Saints’ Lives, ed. and trans. M. Winterbottom and R. M. Thomson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) All biblical quotes are drawn from the Douay-Rheims version, accessed at www.drbo.org 9 AcknowleDgements Sincere thanks are due to my supervisors. Professor Giles Gasper has supported me throughout my years at Durham with patience and skill and his extraordinary depth and breadth of knowledge has been a source of both inspiration and amazement. Dr Venetia Bridges joined Giles as a supervisor in the later stages of this thesis and has been greatly valued, opening my eyes to a new way of looking at my work. Thanks are due too to colleagues and friends who have helped along the way and for whose professional insights and guidance I am most grateful: Dr Margaret Coombe for all things Godric, including sharing chapters from her forthcoming translations of Reginald of Durham’s Life of the saint; Dr Peter Sander for casting his medical eyes over accounts of the illnesses of medieval saints; Karen Servadei for her professional analysis of a twelfth-century monastic diet and Christine Talbot for her tolerance and expertise in language and grammar.
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