[Sca-cooks] Fun and ignorance

[A F Murphy]

If one knew nothing whatsoever about herbs, medicine, cooking, or the
Middle Ages, I would think one would still have trouble with the
internal logic of

>practice generally employed only by
>monastery monks and "herbalists";
>
because

>herbs were viewed as "evil"
>due to their association with pagan rituals; further, illness was viewed
>as a punishment for sins and hence, diseas was considered a divine
>retribution not to be interfered with.
>

So only monks, especially Benedictines,  practiced this "unchristian"
activity of healing? Am I missing something?

Anne

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:

>We are always complaining about the misconceptions about medieval food
>rife in the popular culture. Well, heres' an article that gets the food
>stuff more or less right and the medical/herbal stuff almost completely
>wrong:
>
>http://www.alternative-beauty.com/medievalherbal1.htm
>
>