Author: Juliana Cummings

Juliana Cummings is a historian and writer whose work examines health, belief, and everyday survival in medieval society. Medicine in the Middle Ages was published by Pen & Sword History in 2021 with the subtitle Surviving the Times. Across its chapters, the book considers medical theory and practice alongside surgery, childbirth, disease, religious care, household remedies, and the social position of healers. It is medieval and social history rather than a modern clinical guide, an important distinction when reading its accounts of past treatments. Cummings uses documentary and material evidence to explain what people believed about the body and what options were available to them in different settings. The volume contains twenty black-and-white illustrations that complement its historical treatment. Medicine in the Middle Ages thus connects Cummings's author identity to a clearly defined nonfiction role: interpreting the constraints, institutions, and practical responses that shaped care in the medieval world.