The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
Thursday 2 October 
Unitarian Chapel
4.30pm
Imagine Renaissance medicine: unsterile instruments, no anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. Not to mention astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre ‘treatments’, more likely to kill than to cure…
As ever, the true picture is somewhat different. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern medicine began to take shape, and medical education was being formalised. Through dissections and hands-on experience in war, surgeons were documenting the intricacies of the human body. And, as European powers expanded into the New World, new medicines and treatments were being discovered and cultivated.
Historian Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England to reveal the miraculous birth of modern medicine.
Tickets £15.00
includes refreshments
History Festival at a Glance
Sunday 28 September
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Tuesday 30 September
Wednesday 1 October
Thursday 2 October
Friday 3 October
Saturday 4 October
Sunday 5 October
Warwick University Talks
| Dave Steele | Rev Arthur Wade: Radical Vicar of Warwick | Saturday 4 October |
| Guido van Meersbergen | The Making of an Imperial Icon: Richard Hakluyt and the Commemorative Culture of Empire  |
Saturday 11 October |
| Henry Clements and Katayoun Shafiee | The Middle East in Context: Energy, Palestine and the Historical Present  |
Saturday 11 October |
| Susan L. Carruthers | Demob Fashion: Out of Uniform and Into Civvies | Saturday 11 October |
Saturday 15 November
Friday 21 November