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Medieval Wellness: From Beauty to Bloodletting holiday 2025 Shin Maekawa was a seniorAvailable December 2026 Larisa Grollemond Dispelling myths of a dirty, superstitious Middle Ages, this entertaining volume explores medieval approaches to health and wellness. 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. With wit and expert analysis, medievalist