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Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine

Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine

Elma Brenner explores some of the diseases that afflicted people in the Middle Ages, and the steps they took to heal the sick and avoid becoming ill in the first place

Published: June 6, 2020 at 12:15 PM

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In the third of five talks from our virtual Medieval Life and Death Day event, historian Elma Brenner explores some of the diseases that afflicted people in the Middle Ages, and the steps they took to heal the sick and avoid becoming ill in the first place.