Leigheas

Deborah Hayden is Principal Investigator of the 4-year digital humanities project LEIGHEAS: Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World, which is funded by a Consolidator Laureate Award from Research Ireland. The central aim of LEIGHEAS (the Irish word for ‘remedy’ or ‘the art of healing’) is to illuminate the social, pedagogical and manuscript context for the production and circulation of medical texts throughout the medieval Gaelic world. It also seeks to position this corpus within a wider intellectual framework, however, by exploring the complex multilingual and cross-cultural interactions that shaped the development of scientific writing across northern Europe more broadly during this period.