Welcome

Unlocking the Medieval Medicine Cabinet

Welcome to Ancientbiotics. To find out more about who we are – click here to see our About Us page. Looking for something specific? Use the menu above or the links below to navigate our website.

Book of Hours
University of Pennsylvania, MS Codex 1620, fol. 3r

For more information on our interdisciplinary work, click above.

Skeletal system, LJS 49, 10r
University of Pennsylvania, LJS 49, fol. 10r

To see some of our celebrations as a team, as well as access links to some of our events, click above.

This is an image of 9 C from Free Library of Philadelphia The Rosenbach MS 1004/29, Almanack (York, England, 1364).
Urine Wheel, Physician's Belt Book, FLP, Rosenbach, MS 1004/29, fol. 9C

For further information on our projects, or to see a list of our team's publications and partnerships, as well as a list of public engagements such as Radio and TV appearances, click above.

Credit: Gill Williamson

To view a summary of the exciting exhibit held at Lakeside Arts in Nottingham (30th March - 3rd September 2023), click above.

If you wish to contact specific members of our team, you can find their information on the ‘About Us’ page, to contact the School of English at the University of Nottingham, or the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, click here to see our Contact Us page.

Our Funders and Collaborators

APEX award (Academies Partnership in Supporting Excellence in Cross-disciplinary research award)

UNICAS funds and facilitates interdisciplinary research collaborations involving analytical science