Stories
- Article
The metamorphosis of masturbation
Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?
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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.
- Book extract
The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
Catalogue
- Books
A history of the Crusades / [Sir Steven Runciman].
Runciman, Steven, 1903-2000.Date: 1962-66- Books
Tuberculosis in the Crusades / Piers D. Mitchell.
Mitchell, Piers D.Date: [1999]- Books
Disease to death during the Crusades / Bernard J. Ficarra.
Ficarra, Bernard J. (Bernard Joseph), 1914-Date: 1996- Books
Racisms : from the Crusades to the twentieth century / Francisco Bethencourt.
Bethencourt, Francisco.Date: [2013]- Books
Latin Greece, the Hospitallers and the Crusades, 1291-1440 / Anthony Luttrell.
Luttrell, Anthony, 1932-Date: 1982