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Martha Carlin and David Crouch, however, have discovered numerous examples of such correspondence hiding in plain sight. The letters can be found in manuscripts called formularies-the collections of form letters and other model documents that for centuries were used to teach the arts of letter-writing and keeping accounts.   The writing-masters and their students who produced these books compiled examples of all the kinds of correspondence that people of means, members of the clergy, and those who handled their affairs might expect to encounter in their business and personal lives. Tucked among the sample letters from popes to bishops and from kings to sheriffs are examples of a much more casual, ephemeral kind of correspondence. These are the low-level letters that evidently were widely exchanged, but were often discarded because they were not considered to be of lasting importance. Two manuscripts, one in the British Library and the other in the Bodleian Library, are especially rich in such documents, and it is from these collections that Carlin and Crouch have drawn the documents in this volume. They are presented here in their first printed edition, both in the original Latin and in English translation, each document splendidly contextualized in an accompanying essay.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51517301817617,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51517302046993,"sku":"GOR014312343","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740237426961,"sku":"NIN9780812223361","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53345927332113,"sku":"CIN0812223365G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812223365.jpg?v=1752316151"},{"product_id":"food-and-eating-in-medieval-europe-book-martha-carlin-9781852851484","title":"Food and Eating in Medieval Europe","description":"Eating and drinking are essential to life and therefore of great  interest to the historian. As well as having a real fascination in their  own right, both activities are an integral part of the both social and  economic history. Yet food and drink, especially in the middle ages,  have received less than their proper share of attention. The essays in  this volume approach their subject from a variety of angles: from the  reality of starvation and the reliance on 'fast food' of those without  cooking facilities, to the consumption of an English lady's household  and the career of a cook in the French royal household.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51575748526353,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51575748657425,"sku":"GOR007084322","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52538438811921,"sku":"NLS9781852851484","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852851481.jpg?v=1751457585"},{"product_id":"connected-book-martha-carlin-9781967386635","title":"Connected","description":"When Martha Carlin's husband is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, she begins asking the questions conventional medicine could not answer.\nWhy this body? Why now? What had been building beneath the surface for years?\nWhat follows is a deeply personal and intellectually ambitious journey through love, loss, scientific inquiry, and systems thinking. In Connected, Carlin explores the hidden links between the microbiome, inflammation, environmental stressors, food, and the broader forces shaping chronic illness in modern life.\nPart memoir, part scientific reckoning, and part challenge to medical dogma, this book traces one woman's search to understand not only Parkinson's but the larger chronic disease crisis affecting millions. Through the story of her husband John, her family, and her years of investigation, Carlin invites readers to see the body not as a collection of isolated problems, but as an interconnected system.\nFor readers drawn to root-cause thinking, health transformation, the microbiome, and personal stories with depth and conviction, Connected offers a bold new lens on illness, healing, and what becomes possible when we stop reducing complex systems to simplistic answers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53657101467921,"sku":"NIN9781967386635","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-martha-carlin.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}