In the fourteenth century people of all social levels traveled significant distances for health care. Narrative sources reveal the ill searched for a better doctor at a time when university-trained medical practitioners were an exciting new alternative. Sufferers sought out distant saints when local options did not work, and numerous people traveled to specialists, saintly and secular, for specific health problems. In contrast to modern assumptions that people in medieval Europe rarely traveled, evidence shows that the sick were willing to travel very far from home in search of a remedy.
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