My research is focused on six manuscripts from two different centres of production within the Carolingian empire containing diverse and largely understudied medical texts from anonymous recipe collections to theoretical treatises attributed (at times inaccurately) to some of the most famous ancient medical authorities such as Hippocrates and Galen. These texts, primarily concerned with causes and treatments of the various illnesses affecting early medieval bodies, also reflect preoccupations with delineating the boundaries between healthy and unhealthy, normal and non-normal, acceptable and unacceptable, ultimately human and non-human. At the same time, they make visible the social and medical treatment, as well as the (real and/or imagined) practices of care those with these conditions might have received.  

Working at the intersection of disability history, history of medicine and manuscript approaches, I aim to make visible the enduring and ever-changing bodies at the centre of early medieval medical knowledge, as well as the unique textual environments that they inhabit.