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