Medieval manuscripts ... by ‘elaborate and sophisticated ideas’ about the body and the influence upon it of the wider world and even the cosmos. The manuscripts also revealed that medicine ...

One of the most beautiful manuscripts belonged to Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. The richly-illuminated ... not just about how medieval people healed, but how they ...

The “Romance” of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated manuscript on his ... some of them recasting it into poetical form in Medieval Greek vernacular. According to researchers, the manuscript ...

By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes filled volumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also ...