Hippocrates the fool : faith and healing in Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail

• Main Author: Hindley, Katherine Storm
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Language::English; Old English; Henry Lovelich
• Online Access: http://www.movingworlds.net/volumes/19/literature-medicine-health/; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143602
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

‘[A]s a literary monument, or as a work of art, his History of the Holy Grail is valueless’, wrote Dorothy Kempe, one of the early-twentieth-century editors of the works of Henry Lovelich. Other critics describe Lovelich as ‘the most clumsy and tedious poet of the fifteenth century’, and as ‘an unim...