Gender in Medieval Europe

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Galien le Restoré (Cheltenham Manuscript)

Folio 4, Laisse 1
Folio 4, Laisse 1

This fourteenth-century French manuscript, a medieval poem that is one of the segments of the cycles of Guillaume d’Orange, is found today in the Special Collections of the Knight Library here at the University of Oregon. This segment, the Galien le Restoré or Galiens li Restorés, is being transcribed and translated by Professors Barbara Altmann and Gina Psaki in Romance Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, using an adaptation of our Distance Research Environment in order to enlist the involvement of colleagues off campus. We hope to make the digital version accessible to the public one day. For more information, there is a Wikipedia piece on the manuscript.

Fourteenth Century Middle English Poetry and Prose

Professor Louise Bishop, Clark Honors College, has worked with WHP on a digital LouiseBookteaching unit about medicine in the medieval world. Her more recent book, Words, Stones and Herbs: The Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England (Syracuse University Press, 2007) was based in part on a research trip to England that we helped organize, taking in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and the Wellcome Library in London.