Stories
- Article
Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
- In pictures
Water of life?
From ancient sources of spiritual sustenance to the modern spa, Ross MacFarlane traces a brief history of healing waters.
- Article
When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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The ancient doctors who refused payment
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
Catalogue
- Pictures
Sacred and secular subjects. Album of woodcuts by Florentine artists, 15--.
Date: 1500-1599Reference: 2922242i- Pictures
Sacred and secular subjects. Etchings attributed to J. Wolff after R. La Fage.
La Fage, Raymond, 1656-1684.Date: [between 1710 and 1719?]Reference: 2497788i- Books
- Online
Sacred biography : saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages / Thomas J. Heffernan.
Heffernan, Thomas J., 1944-Date: 1988- Books
Sacred charity : confraternities and social welfare in Spain, 1400-1700 / by Maureen Flynn.
Flynn, Maureen, 1955-Date: 1989- Books
Sacred bond : the legacy of Baby M / Phyllis Chesler ; introduction by Ann Oakley.
Chesler, PhyllisDate: 1990