Erin Connelly

Erin Connelly is a CLIR-Mellon Fellow for data curation in medieval studies in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts. Her special interest is in medieval medical texts and the relevance of medieval medicine for modern infections (ancientbiotics)

Thu, 06/29/2017 - 12:02
Medieval Medical Books Could Hold the Recipe for New AntibioticsThere may be real science behind ancient remedies
Thu, 06/29/2017 - 12:02
For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant. This time period is popularly referred to as the “Dark Ages,” which erroneously suggests that it was unenlightened by science or reason. However, some medievalists and scientists…