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Regents Park College Oxford

Omnia Cl. Galeni Pergameni summi in arte medica viri opera

Doctor Doctor: The Works of Galen (Basle 1542)

This copy of Galen has had a hard life, but a useful one.  The 2nd century Greek physician is now often mentioned only with respect to his errors (which are glaring, including continuing the theory of humour imbalance and believing that being female was a sort of birth defect), but when his work was reintroduced… Read more »

From the blog

9th October 2020

Mantantu Dundulu, N’lemvo. Linguist, pioneer, man of faith.

To celebrate Black History Month, Dr Daniel Gerrard , Lecturer in Medieval History here at Regent’s, is jumping ahead a few centuries from the...
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