Step into the world of medieval medicine as we explore the tools doctors and surgeons used during the Middle Ages. From bone saws to bloodletting instruments, we take a closer look at the often brutal ...

Learn how researchers combined modern tech, text, and bones to uncover details about a disabled man's life in medieval Sweden ...

Using cutting-edge technology, scientists penetrated the deepest layers of the injury and cross-referenced historical documentation to assemble an accurate and honest picture of disability care in ...

It’s a big change for researchers in terms of contextualizing the lives of disabled people in the Middle Ages. "Inferring social norms around physical impairment and disability from religious ...

An illustration of a Medieval doctors examining the abdomen of a patient. There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time ...

Visitors to Dutch and German bathhouses in the late Middle Ages emerged from such spaces cleansed of more than just their grime: They also received basic medical care from “baders,” bathhouse ...

The skeleton, referred to as individual 2399, belonged to a man of about 30 years of age who lived in the late Middle Ages (1300–1536 CE). At some point in his twenties, his left femur (thigh ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...