Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... the texts grant delightful insight into the folk medicine commonly practiced at the time. Many ...

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – will feature in a new exhibition at Cambridge University Library. Curious ...

Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World looks at how medical practitioners of the time sought to understand and treat illness with… strange methods. Researchers were shocked to find one ...

THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases such as smallpox, and pioneering lifesaving surgical procedures. Their interest also ...

Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 ... The monasteries also preserved ancient ideas about medicine.

What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine. Take a trip back five centuries with BBC Bitesize as we look at the methods physicians employed then ...

Apeike Umolu explores what the University Library’s latest exhibition can teach us about female healthcare in medieval ...

Matteo Pace is a medievalist specializing in Italian literary cultures and the history of medicine in the 13th and 14th centuries. His research focuses on how medieval vernacular poetry shaped the ...

medicine, music, drama, philosophy, gender, sexuality, mysticism and technology, as well as medievalism. 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies The 60th International Congress on Medieval ...

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