No present-day term adequately captures the dynamic marketplace for curing what ailed you in pre-modern England. "Helping-Care" services were provided by a wide variety of healers and helpers: cunning folk, diviners, empirics, midwives, apothecaries, barber surgeons, and physicians all provided treatments focused on client physical, mental, and sometimes spiritual well-being. Practitioners, both formally and informally educated, often served clients from every rank of society, and were frequently well known in their communities for specialized treatments and cures. This course examines the wide range of standard magical and medical helping and healing practices that were in everyday use in pre-modern England. It also studies the charlatans who hoped to take advantage of people in such a dynamic setting. Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Seminar/Discussion hoursPrerequisite(s): 3 credit
No present-day term adequately captures the dynamic marketplace for curing what ailed you in pre-modern England. "Helping-Care" services were provided by a wide variety of healers and helpers: cunning folk, diviners, empirics, midwives, apothecaries, barber surgeons, and physicians all provided treatments focused on client physical, mental, and sometimes spiritual well-being. Practitioners, both formally and informally educated, often served clients from every rank of society, and were frequently well known in their communities for specialized treatments and cures. This course examines the wide range of standard magical and medical helping and healing practices that were in everyday use in pre-modern England. It also studies the charlatans who hoped to take advantage of people in such a dynamic setting. Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Seminar/Discussion hoursPrerequisite(s): 3 credit
