So it's a bit shocking to us, but probably at some point, almost every plant, animal, and mineral was ingested at one point as a medicine.

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This is the Tudors Dynasty podcast. And now, Ask the Expert with Steph.

Today we're going to dive into science and medicine in the Middle Ages.

How were doctors trained?

What were they trained on?

What so-called remedies actually worked?

Today we have historian Winston E. Black with us, author of Medicine and Healing

in the Pre-Modern West, A History in Documents, to walk us through all things, science and

medicine. Thank you for joining us, Winston.

Thanks for inviting me. I'm really excited to talk with you today.

So why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and who you are and what you do, and how did you get into this?

Yeah, of course. I am a historian of medieval medicine and religion. My official position is I'm the

Gatto chair of Christian Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia.

So I teach courses on medieval history, medieval religion, and my favorite topic, medieval medicine

for the history and religious studies departments there.

It's a field I've been working on now for about 20 years since grad school.

And really what interests me most is what was medicine like within medieval Christian society?

What did it mean to heal the body in a society that thought so much about their eternal souls.

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