Name: Alanna Skuse – The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
Start: 2026-10-04T12:00:00
End: 2026-10-04T15:00:00
Location: The Queen's Hall

Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England – a world of travelling surgeons,...

Alanna Skuse – The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

Alanna Skuse The Surgeon, the Midwife and the Quack How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England with Kate Harris Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England – a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants. But a medical revolution was afoot and this book evokes the remarkable birth of modern medicine. Alanna Skuse is a literary scholar, historian and author with a focus on stories, about medicine, bodies and Renaissance England. Tickets go on sale 15 August for priority booking and 22 August for general sale.

Alanna Skuse

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