Visitors to Dutch and German bathhouses in the late Middle Ages emerged from such spaces cleansed of more than just their grime: They also received basic medical care from “baders,” bathhouse ...

15th century German woodcut showing an apothecary's shop. Apothecaries were not doctors but they did sell herbs and medicines. In the Middle Ages, visiting a doctor would have been very expensive ...

The psychology of the Middle Ages was derived from the Bible and the Teachings of the fathers, from Roman law, and from the Germanic mind. These three categories were fused together to form that ...