Physician of Myddfai

Physician of Myddfai
Author: Margherita Capriati
Publisher: Margherita Capriati
Total Pages: 465
Release: 101-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The story takes place in Wales, around 1300, concerns two important families who have bonds of kinship and friendship, together with shared secrets. Elements of mythology, historical references, fiction and fantasy have been included in this book. The characters were invented and inserted into families that really existed at the time. The story is purely fictional and in the book every reference to real historical characters has been modified and adapted to combine the historical and fiction parts.

Medieval Welsh Medical Texts

Medieval Welsh Medical Texts
Author: Diana Luft
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786835495

Introduction giving full explanation of the nature of the corpus and the historical context. This will allow readers to understand the nature of the texts, and to make inferences about how the medical texts which follow might have been used. Notes giving sources and analogues for the recipes in other contemporary European languages (Latin, Middle English, Anglo-Norman). These will allow readers to understand the common theories underlying the recipes and to make judgements about the place of this material within the larger European medical tradition of the time. Comprehensive glossaries. These will allow readers to find any recipe based on the ingredients used in it, or the condition treated, allowing them to compare with recipes in other sources themselves, from other time periods, or investigate the corpus of the way different ingredients were used. Comprehensive plant-name glossary giving evidence for the interpretation of the plant names in the corpus from a series of previously unstudied pre-modern plant-name glossaries. This will allow readers to evaluate the evidence for the interpretation of the plant names and hopefully spur on further research on this neglected topic.

Myddfai

Myddfai
Author: David B. James
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1991
Genre: Myddfai Region (Wales)
ISBN: 9780951747001

The Physicians of Myddfai

The Physicians of Myddfai
Author: Rhiwallon of Myddfai
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781479347117

"The Physicians of Myddfai"("Meddygon Myddvai" in Welsh), or "The medical practice of the celebrated Rhiwallon and his sons, of Myddfai, in Carmarthenshire, physicians to Rhys Gryg, lord of Dynevor and Ystrad Towy," was written about the middle of the 13th century. The collection of herbal remedies are associated with Rhiwallon Feddyg (eldest son of the Lady of the Lake), founder of a medical dynasty that lasted over 500 years and comes from the manuscript called the "Red Book of Hergest," a large vellum manuscript written in Welsh shortly after 1382. The manuscript derives its name from the colour of its leather binding and from its association with Hergest Court between the late 15th and early 17th century. The Physicians of Myddfai practised in the village of Myddfai near the market town of Llandovery in Wales, healing subjects with their herb lore and potions as well as their mystical powers and insight into the human condition.