Search results

Vision and the Artist

Visual disorders affect the way we see, and therefore would...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth century...

Using Mortality to Compare the Health of Populations

New Insights Into Mortality Patterns of Early Modern Cities

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in...

Illuminated Psalter Manuscripts

Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts...

Drawings in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Medieval drawings are frequently viewed as the poor cousins of...