Bitesize: Medieval medicine, c1250-1500
c1250-1500 · Resource
Edexcel revision guide on medieval ideas about the cause of disease (the Four Humours, miasma, supernatural explanations), care in the home and Church-run hospitals, and the medieval response to the Black Death.
On these timelines: BBC Bitesize (revision guides), Resources: Combined
Around 1375
- Black Death (1346)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Black Plague reaches Europe (1347)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)
- Age of Exploration (1418)
- Zheng He (1371)