Medieval medicine used tools inherited from antiquity, but metalwork and surgical knowledge made those instruments more ...

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. The “Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York says ...

A new exhibition offers a glimpse into the unusual and sometimes bizarre medical practices of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Meg Leja, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) ...