Stories
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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
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.
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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.
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An animated almanac for the modern world
Discover why Thomas Coleman wanted to make a medieval folding almanac relevant to the modern world and see the film for yourself.
Catalogue
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Medieval and Renaissance medicine / [Benjamin Lee Gordon].
Gordon, Benjamin Lee, 1870-1965.Date: [1960]- Books
Sexuality and culture in medieval and renaissance Europe / edited by Philip M. Soergel.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Books
Medical classroom practice : Petrus Hispanus' questions on Isagoge, Tegni, Regimen Acutorum and Prognostica (c.1245-50) (MS Madrid B.N. 1877, fols 24rb-141rb) / Fernando Salmón.
Salmón, Fernando.Date: 1998- Books
A census of Greek medical manuscripts : from Byzantium to the Renaissance / Alain Touwaide, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, DC, USA.
Touwaide, AlainDate: 2016- Books
The limits of influence : Pico, Louvain, and the crisis of Renaissance astrology / by Steven Vanden Broecke.
Vanden Broecke, Steven, 1971-Date: 2003