Exhibition
A new exhibition on medieval medicine opens at Cambridge University Library on Saturday 29 March:
Inspired by a Wellcome-funded digitisation, cataloguing and conservation project, Curious Cures shows what medieval people thought about the body and how it functioned, how they sought to understand disease and its causes, and how they tried to treat a bewildering array of ailments and illnesses. Drawing on the collections of Cambridge University Library, as well as manuscripts loaned from several college libraries and the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Curious Cures explores how medieval physicians operated within international networks of knowledge and study, and drew on an ancient and multicultural intellectual heritage. It details how they built on this through further refinements and writings, as well as experiential learning and treatments that they knew (or thought they knew) to be effective. The provenance and contents of the manuscripts furthermore reveal the wide range of constituencies involved in the practice of medicine: not only educated physicians, but also members of the religious orders, surgeons, barbers, practitioners of the healing arts, and men and women in their own households. By providing translations of many of the recipes shown in the openings on display, the exhibition shares with visitors the experience of reading the words, seeing the writer's hand before our eyes, and entering - if for a brief moment - their mind and their world.
Entry is free. For opening hours, and to book a free ticket, go to: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitioncuriouscures
The exhibition runs until 6 December 2025.
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