HIST 3550: Science and Medicine in Ancient and Medieval Europe: Images

You may use the images in small amounts for in-class presentations. See section on "Copyright" for permissible uses of manuscript images.

Creative Commons increases "the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing." In other words, these are images that you can use for projects, presentations, etc., often with the only restriction being that you list the creator's name.

Lists sites for government-produced images and other public domain image sources

Over 250,000 images of items in Yale's museum collections, available, with no license required for use.

Stronger in later periods, but a large enough archive that you can still find images of medieval items.

Image from Flickr user Charles Tilford, uploaded April 18, 2003

From Wellcome Library's online image collection. From MS 49, Apocalypse, (The), [etc.]. Apocalypsis S. Johannis cum glossis et Vita S. Johannis; Ars Moriendi, etc.; Anatomical, medical, texts, theological moral and allegorical 'exempla' and extracts, a few in verse. Folio 38 recto

Image from Flickr user Peter, uploaded April 6, 2013.

Image from Flickr user Νίκος Νιοτής, uploaded February 14, 2012