{"product_id":"medieval-wellness","title":"Medieval Wellness","description":"Often  maligned as an era of darkness and superstition, the Middle Ages in Europe  have been stereotyped as lacking standards for basic hygiene, or, at the very  least, for having a laughably simplistic approach to self-care and medicine.     In truth, medieval practices surrounding wellness were complex, encoding a  wide variety of social and cultural expectations and anxieties. Yet the  relationship medieval people had to their own bodies and minds-along with the  pursuits undertaken to perfect them-was a sophisticated one, not unlike our  own today.    With wit and expert analysis, medievalist  Larisa Grollemond explores some of the most frequently asked questions about  the Middle Ages, such as: Did people bathe? How did they take care of their  teeth? Did the same person who cut hair really also perform amputations?  Richly illustrated with over 130 images of artifacts and manuscript  illuminations alongside excerpts from medieval sources such as medical  treatises, herbals, and recipe books, Medieval Wellness  riffs on modern wellness culture while revealing what life was really like in  the Middle Ages.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680079257973,"sku":"9798887120614","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/medieval-wellness","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}