Katherine Harvey
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London
Katherine Harvey is a medieval historian and a Wellcome Trust research fellow in the department of history, Classics and archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Episcopal Appointments in England, c1214-1344: From Episcopal Election to Papal Provision (2014). She lives in London.
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The salacious Middle Ages
Medieval people feared death by celibacy as much as venereal disease, and practiced complex sexual health regimens
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Medieval parasites
People in the Middle Ages took great care over cleanliness – except the clergy, who accepted filth as a sign of devotion
Katherine Harvey