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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

scientific superstions, harvest rituals, Anglo-Saxon, medicine

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

History

Abstract

I originally applied for an ORCA grant in order to further my research toward my Honors thesis — a cultural study of Anglo-Saxon medicine. I realized that I would not be able to create a viable paper on the subject with the limited sources available to me in an already limited field. To this end, I put the money toward BYU’s Direct Enrollment program at Cambridge University, where I would have access to the imposing University Library as well as the chance to work one-on-one with an expert on my subject. This was the most rewarding – and also the most frustrating – use I could have found for the grant money. Despite having only limited sources available to me in Utah, I had discovered definite trends in the scholarship, and had formatted my argument accordingly. In my grant request as well as my thesis proposal I had explained my intended argument: that the largely superstitious nature of Anglo-Saxon medicine was due to failings on the part of the two dominant philosophies of the time, classicism and Catholicism. My focus was thus broad, cultural, and negative.

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