Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

The Hôtel-Dieu de Paris hospital. This is one of the few pictures of the inside of a medieval hospital There were about 1,200 places in medieval England and Wales describing themselves as ...

The Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris. This is one of the few pictures of the inside of a medieval hospital There were also leper hospitals. These were on the outskirts of towns so that lepers could ...

The Medieval Islamic world produced some of the greatest medical thinkers in history, they also made advances in surgery, built hospitals, and welcomed women into the medical profession.