Daily Medieval

We started a conversation yesterday on the use of urine by medieval Western European physicians to determine health. I thought today we...

We've been talking about blood as food , and some recipes using blood in cooking, but now let's talk about health-related blood. Bl...

Trying to understand biology had many false starts. You probably have some idea of "humors" and the adjectives cold, hot, wet, and...

The modern Italian word for a notebook is taccuino . It comes from the medieval (and later) popularity of the Tacuinum Sanitatis . That name...

One of the medical texts composed by Isaac Israeli ben Solomon was translated from Arabic to Latin and called De Urinis  ("Concerning U...