Research Staff:
Dr Debby Banham
Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Contact
Department of ASNC, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
(+44-1223-335079)
Email: db116@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Anglo-Saxon medicine, diet and farming
- Monastic sign language.
- Until recently, she compiled the history section of the annual Anglo-Saxon England bibliography.
Recent Publications
- Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon England (Tempus, 2004)
- ‘Arestolobius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem and bark that comes from Paradise: What did the Orient mean to the compilers of Old English medical collections?’ in Nil Sari et al. (eds) Proceedings of the 38th International Congress on the History of Medicine, International Society for the History of Medicine, pp. 459–68 (2005)
- ‘A millennium in medicine? New medical texts and ideas in England in the eleventh century’, in Simon Keynes and Alfred P. Smyth (eds) Anglo-Saxons: Studies presented to Cyril Roy Hart , Four Courts Press, pp. 230–42 (2006)
- ed., with Anke Timmermann and Nick Jardine, The Body as Instrument, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (2006)
- ‘“The very useful and very accessible skill of bending the fingers”: finger counting from Bede’s De temporum ratione’, in Anke Timmermann et al. (eds) The Body as Instrument,Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, pp. 8–16 (2006)
- Review of Victoria Thompson, Death and Dying in Later Anglo-Saxon England, in Medical History 50.2, 273–4 (2006)