For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... the texts grant delightful insight into the folk medicine commonly practiced at the time. Many ...

While it is often portrayed as one of the cruellest and most horrifying practices imaginable, my recent research shows that ...

Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 ... The monasteries also preserved ancient ideas about medicine.

These reflected early medieval ecclesiastical concerns in regulating society—what was right and wrong, what could and could not be done—in terms of both violence and sexuality. For instance ...

What you probably won’t do, is look to the remedies used in the days of medieval medicine. Take a trip back five centuries with BBC Bitesize as we look at the methods physicians employed then ...

To transition without medicine, medieval transgender people relied on changes they could make themselves. They cut their hair, put on different clothes, changed their names, and found new places in ...

Silva, assistant professor of English at Oklahoma State University, will deliver a talk at 11:50 a.m. today in Kimpel Hall 409 titled ...

To transition without medicine, medieval transgender people relied on changes they could make themselves. They cut their hair, put on different clothes, changed their names, and found new places ...