Catherine Harvey
Historian and honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, specializing in the medieval and early modern periods and author of The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living.
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Apr 2, 2026 • 36min
How to stay healthy in the Middle Ages
Catherine Harvey, historian and author of The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living, explores how people in the Middle Ages cared for body and mind. She explains humoral theory, hygiene practices, toilets and street-cleaning rules. She covers food classified by hot/cold qualities, peasant diets, purging and bloodletting, sex and moderation, mental health, and medical exchanges with Jewish and Muslim traditions.
