Kathleen Miller
is a Visiting Scholar at Queen’s University Belfast. After receiving her Ph.D. in English literature and book history from Trinity College Dublin, she published The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England (2016) and co-edited Dublin: Renaissance City of Literature (2017). She is completing her second monograph on women’s plague writing in early modern England, as well as revising an edited volume on medicine and religion in the trans-Atlantic world, each based on research completed during the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship she held at the University of Toronto and Queen’s University Belfast. — View all posts by Kathleen Miller
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Fascinating stuff!
Given that modern medicine has remained hugely reliant on molecules found in plants, I can’t help wondering how many of the plants mentioned have modern medicinal uses.
Edward Barrett — March 28, 2024