Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age ...

Medical tools in the Middle Ages reflect a period of limited knowledge but growing experimentation in healthcare. Physicians ...

In the Middle Ages, the barber-surgeon became the poor-man’s go to doctor. Someone to deal with the more mundane and dirty jobs. Jobs like bloodletting, pulling out teeth, dealing with minor wounds, ...

Three Duke alumni from the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program discuss the value of the humanities to both their ...