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Category: Curious Cures

Cure This! Medieval maladies and the 2023 Hands:On Hackathon

Posted on 6 October 2023 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Kate Falardeau, PhD candidate in the Faculty of History, and one of the participants of this year’s Hands:On Hackathon at […]

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Curious Cures, Digital Resources, Events, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Taking Curious Cures from Cambridge to Copenhagen

Posted on 1 September 2023 by CUL Conservation

Our Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project conservators Marina Pelissari and Rachel Sawicki recently presented a paper at the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts Seminar […]

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Conservation, Curious Cures, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Zodiac Men and Talking Books: two new online exhibitions

Posted on 7 July 2023 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Sara Manlowe and Eleanor Watson, MA students from the Universities of Bristol and York respectively.

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Curious Cures, Exhibitions, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Two Decades of Digital Photography in the Library: Evolution of Practice and Technology

Posted on 26 May 2023 by Clarck Drieshen

Post by Maciej M. Pawlikowski, Head of Digital Content Unit, and Raffaella Losito, Photographer When photographers are working on the digitisation of special collections, they […]

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Curious Cures, Digitisation, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

‘For no cause but for the healing and help of them’: medieval gynaecology as a female discipline

Posted on 3 March 2023 by Special Collections

Guest post by Sarah Friedman, PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thanks to research grants from the Medieval Academy of America and […]

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Curious Cures, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

A New Year’s Eve Ghost Story

Posted on 31 December 2022 by Special Collections

This Christmas we bring you a spine-chilling ritual for conjuring spirits from the margins of a medieval manuscript that features in our current Curious Cures […]

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Archives, Collectors and collecting, Curious Cures, Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

Charming creepy-crawlies in the Middle Ages

Posted on 4 October 2022 by Clarck Drieshen

Animals often crop up among the medical recipes in the over 180 medieval manuscripts that Cambridge University Library is currently conserving, cataloguing, and digitising in […]

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Curious Cures, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts, Special Collections

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