Evening Talk: How To Be A Doctor in 1000AD

Dr Christina Lee of the University of Nottingham gives a talk on early medieval medicine, remedies and healthcare around the year 1000AD.

Dr Christina Lee from the University of Nottingham explores what medicine really looked like a thousand years ago, drawing on cutting-edge research into early medieval healthcare. The talk covers the remedies, treatments and surgical techniques available around the first millennium, and how people understood illness, injury and wellbeing before modern medicine. Questions addressed include whether the rich and poor received different treatments, how care varied for men, women and children, and how effective these early approaches were. The talk is aimed at ages 12+ and includes references to skeletal remains, death and infectious disease.