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SUMMARY:Curious Cures
DESCRIPTION:Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World \nThis month’s FRAG talk  is also the subject of an exhibition at Cambridge University Library. \nMedieval 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\, and subject to the misguided ministrations of physicians or the bizarre remedies of folk healers and charlatans. 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! \nThis talk will describe the complex theories and ideas that guided medieval physicians in their work\, it introduces the many different constituencies who practised medicine at this time\, and it reveals the bewildering array of ailments and illnesses they sought to cure. \nSpeaker:  Dr James Freeman\, Medieval Manuscripts Specialist\, Cambridge University Library \nJames was the Principal Investigator of the Wellcome-funded project\, Curious Cures and is curator of the exhibition Curious Cures: Medicine in the Medieval World\, which is open to all and free to visit at Cambridge University Library until 6 December 2025. Prior to joining the University Library in 2016\, James worked in various capacities in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Departments at the British Library. He also serves as Assistant Editor for the Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society and as Chair of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections\, which promotes the study\, accessibility and preservation of manuscripts and archives in Britain\, Ireland and further afield. \nFREE for FRAG Members \nNon-members welcome – £5 cash\, payable on the night\n(card payment not currently possible) \nThe Venue for FRAG Talks is: \nUniversity Centre Peterborough\nPark Crescent\nPE1 4DZ \nWhat3words:  https://w3w.co/grants.liner.slime \nThis is NOT the new university building in the centre of the city\, but is on a shared campus with Peterborough College and is accessed from Park Crescent. \nThere is on-site parking available. \nThe lecture theatre is on the first floor; a lift is available. \nGoogle Map
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