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 ...

Leech therapy, which was commonly used in medieval medicine, involves applying live leeches to treat various conditions, ...

Developed by ancient Greek thinkers in the 5th century BCE, the theory of the four humors continued to develop during the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To transition without medicine, medieval transgender people relied on changes they could make themselves. They cut their hair, put on different clothes, changed their names, and found new places in ...

These reflected early medieval ecclesiastical concerns in regulating society—what was right and wrong, what could and could not be done—in terms of both violence and sexuality. For instance ...

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 ...

To transition without medicine, medieval transgender people relied on changes they could make themselves. They cut their hair, put on different clothes, changed their names, and found new places ...