Daily Medieval

William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the continent and suffer...

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

Last post mentioned that a medieval illustrator indicated a physician by showing him holding a flask. There was a very specific substance i...

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