Words Stones and Herbs or Cath Kidston Mending Kit

Words, Stones, and Herbs: The Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England

Author: Louise M Bishop

A unique and provocative reevaluation of the trope of healing in Middle English literature.

Inspired by the profound literary history of healing, this compelling book explores the cognitive and physical effects of words in relation to the healing process. Drawing on research in cognitive linguistics applied to medieval linguistic and cognitive philosophy, Louise M. Bishop presents a highly original and theoretically challenging examination of the intersection between medical manuscript and literary texts, such as the Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman.

The art of healing is treated in light of words and context, social needs, cognitive presence, material reality, and political necessity. Carefully researched and powerfully argued, Words, Stones, and Herbs convincingly establishes the healing power of words in late medieval and Tudor England.

Table of Contents:

Illustrations     ix
Preface     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction: Healing and the Vernacular     1
Galen's Shadow: An Outline of Medieval Medicine and Healing     11
The Material Shape of Thought and Word     44
Metaphor, Catharsis, Pharmakon Words, Stones, and Herbs     77
Vernacular Science, Vernacular Poetry Dangerous Reading     102
Gendered Healing: Metaphor and Practice     130
The Disease Called "Touch Me Not": A Fifteenth-Century Medical Manuscript Read in Context     153
Early Modern Medicine: Self-Help and State Authority     189
Conclusion: The Subject of Healing     216
Works Cited     223
Index     251

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Cath Kidston Mending Kit

Author: Cath Kidston

This handy kit includes everything necessary to accomplish basic household-mending projects, from replacing buttons to hemming pants. Inside the lovely padded sewing organizer is a 32-page fully illustrated, step-by-step sewing instruction booklet covering all the sewing basics, plus a complete sewing kit.

Includes:
- Seam-ripper
- Hem measurer
- Tape measure
- Pinwheel with 40 pins
- Scissors
- Built-in pincushion
- Needles (2)
- 10 colors of thread
- Needle threader
- Zippered storage pouch for buttons, etc