Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a healthy life. The cures include the use of crushed weasel testicles to ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts ...

Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – have been ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

Cats wearing clothes and playing musical instruments.These are part of a treasure trove of medieval animal illustrations that ...

What it tells us about the past: Around 800 years ago, a 7-year-old boy named Onfim seems to have gotten bored with doing schoolwork and instead drew himself as a horseback rider slaying an enemy.

Most recently, this pursuit led him to Chiddingstone in Kent – one of a few towns around England that still hosts an annual game of ‘medieval football’. Played on Good Friday each year, the game ...

The larger medieval textile is a UNESCO Memory of the World heritage asset that continues to contain revelatory insights for historians. Earlier this year it was announced that King Harold II’s ...