Stories
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Medieval doodles
Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.
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Parasites and pests from the medieval to the modern
Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.
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The ancient doctors who refused payment
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
Catalogue
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Avicenna and his heritage : Acts of the International Colloquium Leuven - Louvain-la-Neuve September 8 - September 11, 1999 / edited by Jules Janssens and Daniel De Smet.
Date: 2002- Books
Crossroads of cuisine : the Eurasian heartland, the silk roads and food / by Paul D. Buell, E.N. Anderson, Montserrat de Pablo Moya, Moldir Oskenbay.
Buell, Paul D.Date: [2020]- Books
Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine / Zohar Amar and Efraim Lev.
Amar, ZoharDate: 2017- Books
Excavations at an Egyptian burial site / Vincent A. Wood [and others].
Wood, Vincent A.Date: 1985- Books
Perspectives arabes et médiévales sur la tradition scientifique et philosophique grecque : actes du colloque de la SIHSPAI (Société internationale d'histoire des sciences et de la philosophie arabes et islamiques), Paris, 31 mars - 3 avril 1993 / édité par Ahmad Hasnawi, Abdelali Elamrani-Jamal et Maroun Aouad.
Date: 1997]