Curating Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World

Medieval medicine has a bad reputation. It conjures up images of people blighted by disease and ignorance, living a degraded existence in squalid villages and pestilence ridden towns. We commonly think of the Middle Ages as a time of superstition, blind trial-and-error and devastating mortality...but that's not the whole story! A current exhibition at Cambridge University Library - Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World - describes the complex theories and ideas that guided medieval physicians in their work. Join us at Ely Museum to hear from Dr James Freeman, the exhibition's Curator about the inspiration behind the exhibition, what guided the selection and display of these unique and irreplaceable objects, and which ones are his personal favourites.

You may also like the following events from Ely Museum:

• This November, 18th November, 07:00 pm, The Great Plague in Cambridge, 1665-1666: A People's History in Ely

Also check out other Exhibitions in Ely.