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‘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

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

A New Perspective on the Cambridge Songs Manuscript

Posted on 18 October 2021 by Special Collections

This guest post is by Dr Claire Burridge, who completed her PhD at Cambridge (Sidney Sussex) in 2019 and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Early […]

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Cambridge Digital Library, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval manuscripts

Smelly Remedy: Womb Fumigation Illustrated in Seventeenth Century Print

Posted on 12 March 2018 by Special Collections

Swelling, shifting and releasing noxious vapours, the Early Modern womb was deemed to be an unruly organ and the cause of numerous ailments. The symptoms […]

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Exhibitions, Illustration, Medicine, women

Cambridge Science Festival at the University Library

Posted on 8 March 2016 by Special Collections

Cambridge Science Festival started yesterday and over the next two weeks, the city will be even more than usually full of inventions, discoveries and experiments. […]

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600th anniversary, Archives, Digital Resources, Events, Exhibitions, Historical Printing, Library history, Manuscripts, Maps, Medicine, Music, Science, Special Collections

The medical library of Thomas Lorkyn (1528-1591)

Posted on 21 April 2014 by Liam Sims

On this day – April 21st – in 1564, in the same week as Shakespeare was born, Thomas Lorkyn was appointed as the fourth Regius […]

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Collectors and collecting, Incunabula, Library history, Medicine, Rare Books, Special Collections

Epidemic print: medical incunabula and their readers – Incunabula Masterclass – 2 February 2012

Posted on 14 January 2012 by Laura

On Thursday 2 February 2012, the Library will be holding its third masterclass as part of the Incunabula Project. The masterclass, entitled ‘Epidemic print: medical […]

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Events, Incunabula, Medicine

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