Medieval medicine – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

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 […]

Curious Cures, Digital Resources, Events, 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 […]

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