Soc Hist Med (2016) 29 (2): 224-244.doi: 10.1093/shm/hku072
- ↵*Department of History, University of Toledo, Mail Stop 970, 2801 W Bancroft St, Toledo, OH 43606. E-mail: kgeaman@gmail.com; kristen.geaman@utoledo.edu
- Kristen Geaman completed her PhD in medieval history at the University of Southern California in 2013. Her doctoral thesis focused on infertility in the royal family in late medieval England. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Toledo, continuing research into the effects of infertility on the nobility.
Abstract
This article will examine and transcribe The National Archives E 101/402/18, a six-membrane collection of apothecary bills containing medicines purchased for Anne of Bohemia, first queen of Richard II (r. 1377–99). These bills date from the final year of Anne's life (she died of plague in June 1394), which indicates that the queen did not accept her childlessness as her permanent fate. In addition, Anne's treatment sheds light on the medicinal practices of late medieval English elites from the perspective of practice rather than theory (as presented in medieval texts).
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