Stories
- Article
Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
- Article
Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages
The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.
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Guide dogs or good dogs from the Middle Ages
Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.
- In pictures
Advice for (medieval) old age
Whether it was an abstemious, pious preparation for death or drinking gold in the quest for eternal life, those seeking advice on what best to do in their later years were never short of inspiration.
![A middle-aged man giving a geometry lesson to young woman, a young man [her suitor?] hides behind a large globe. Coloured lithograph.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0025329/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Be: Motherhood - Middle Aged Women
Date: 1991-2005Reference: SA/WHL/2/2Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
Middle-aged women in the Middle Ages / edited by Sue Niebrzydowski.
Date: 2011- Books
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Five letters of advice: Humbly offered: The I. To Parents: Concerning the Education of their Children, in the Fear of God. II. To Children: To excite them to Remember their Creator in the Days of their Youth. III. To the Young and Middle-Aged: To warn them of some of the Snares of Life. IV. To the Aged: To [interest] them to improve their present Time, for a blest Eternity. And the V. To All Thirsty Souls: To invite them to come to Christ, and to take the Water of Life; which He hath promised to give them freely. By a Well-Wisher to the Souls of Men.
Well-Wisher to the Souls of Men.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
Forty to sixty : how we waste the middle aged / Michael P. Fogarty.
Fogarty, Michael, 1916-2001.Date: 1975
- Digital Images
- Online
Portrait of Edward Cock, middle aged
W. T. Davey
