Stories
- Article
A medieval guide to practical magic
With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.
- In pictures
Bird-spotting from medieval to modern times
What use is ‘twitching’? Exploring materials created over 500 years shows that there’s more to birdwatching than meets the eye.
- In pictures
Herbal medicines and the early modern menopause
Held responsible for their own “rebellious distempers” – or menopausal symptoms – women had no choice but to keep quiet and resort to unpalatable concoctions in the hope of relief, as Julia Nurse explains.
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
Catalogue
- Books
Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine / Zohar Amar and Efraim Lev.
Amar, ZoharDate: 2017- Books
Abortion in the early middle ages, c. 500-900 / Zubin Mistry.
Mistry, ZubinDate: 2015- Books
Seeing the face, seeing the soul : Polemon's Physiognomy from classical antiquity to medieval Islam / edited by Simon Swain ; with contributions by George Boys-Stones [and others].
Date: 2007- Books
Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine : From Classical Antiquity to the Early Modern Period / edited by Susan Francia and Anne Stobart.
Date: 2014- Books
Hippocratic commentaries in the Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic traditions : selected papers from the XVth Colloque hippocratique, Manchester / edited by Peter E. Pormann.
International Hippocrates Colloquium 2015 : Manchester, England)Date: [2021]