Hèléne Jawhara Piñer is a French-Spanish scholar whose focus is medieval history and the history of food. Her meticulously ...

A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, ...

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The exhibition reveals some of the strange and surprising ways medieval medics tried to cure their patients. | ITV News Anglia ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World ... and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant also known as chickweed] and burn it all equally ...

A 15th-century manuscript reveals how women hoping to get pregnant were told to burn the mixture in an earthenware pot to make a pill ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar, ...

Medieval manuscripts detailing ... and half a handful of young mouse-ear [a plant] and burn it all equally in an earthenware pot. “Afterwards, grind and combine with the juice of the aforementioned ...

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The 15th century 'cure' for infertility advised women to burn and then grind down weasel testicles and a common plant, before putting the mixture into their vagina.