You can hear Jack speaking about his work here:
- Start the Week, BBC Radio 4
- History Hit Podcast with Dan Snow
- BBC History Extra Podcast
- Mr B's Bookshop Podcast
- The Language of the Gut, a documentary on BBC Radio 4


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📔#medievalbodies 📔 Thrilled that Medieval Bodies is out in paperback today!Thanks to all the great people @wellcomecollection and @profile.books!
🐆#medievalbodies👸 #Fortune holding a #peacock and riding a cart drawn by #lions. As you do. @UniHeidelberg Pal. Lat. 1066 (Bavaria, 1424): (link: https://goo.gl/BRxZUc) goo.gl/BRxZUc #medieval #history #histmed #sciart #manuscript #art #fortuna #boss #car #kween
💫 #medievalbodies 💫 #Star chart from central #China c.700, showing #stars visible to the naked eye (drawn pre-telescope). @britishlibrary @idp_uk MS Or. 8210/S.3326: (link: https://goo.gl/sNf3wZ) goo.gl/sNf3wZ #medieval #history #histmed #sciart #astronomy #astrology #art #manuscript
🔥 #medievalbodies 🐂 Phalaris condemning the sculptor Perillos to #burn in a #bronze #bull, from Konrad von Ammenhausen's Schachzabelbuch, c.1467. WLB Stuttgart: goo.gl/q11vHK #medieval #art #manuscript #crime #punishment #tyrant #sideeye #fridayfeelings
🎺 #medievalbodies 🎺 A #piper and #juggler from a collection of religious songs written in Auch, #France, c.1000. @GallicaBnF MS Latin 1118: goo.gl/B37fYc #medieval #art #manuscript #music #musician #pipe #juggling #circus #song
🐋 #medievalbodies 🐋 An amazing #whale next to the entry for 'ambergris' in a 15thC #French herbal. The substance is a secretion from their intestines used in various #medieval #medicines. Modena BEU EST.28: goo.gl/kpx64U #art #manuscript #histmed #sciart #fish #wow #nature
🌿 #medievalbodies 🌿 The #plant Artemisia in a 13thC herbal, brandished beside the #centaur Chiron who was the first to use it as a cure. ONB Cod. 93: goo.gl/ps9vRe #medieval #histmed #sciart #manuscript #medicine #homeopathy #plants #garden
🙌 #medievalbodies 🙌 Tough day? Relax with some light #massage and #stretching courtesy of Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (in this 14th-century #Latin translation) ÖNB Cod SN 2641: goo.gl/t7DPbH #medieval #histmed #art #medicine #relax #ouch
🌍 #medievalbodies 🌍 Thinking lots about #maps recently, so thought I'd share some favourites. Today, a 12th-century zonal #map, showing different climates across the #globe. @gallicabnf Lat 6371: goo.gl/bndN4r #medieval #manuscript #globe #histmed #sciart #art #hot
🌍 #medievalbodies 🌍 Thinking lots about #maps recently, so thought I'd share some favourites. Today, #world #map from Beatus' Commentary on the #Apocalypse, c.1175 @thejohnrylands Lat. 8: goo.gl/ZLQxb9 #medieval #manuscript #histmed #sciart #Spain #art
🌍 #medievalbodies 🌍 Thinking lots about #maps recently, so thought I'd share some favourites. Today, #world #map from a post-medieval copy of al-Qazwini's 'Cosmography'. @nlm_news MS P 1: goo.gl/YupkhR #medieval #art #manuscript #twitterstorians #histmed #sciart #islam
🌍 #medievalbodies 🌍 #World #map from another #French edition of Bartholomew the Englishman's 'On the Properties of Things', 1482 @britishlibrary Royal 15 E III: goo.gl/q2w8HD #medieval #art #manuscript #histmed #sciart #europe #africa #asia
🌍 #medievalbodies 🌍 Thinking lots about #maps recently, so thought I'd share some favourites. Today, #world #map from a #French edition of 'On the Properties of Things', c.1480 @labnf Fr 9140: goo.gl/gRvCYV #medieval #art #manuscript #twitterstorians #histmed #sciart #TO
🌍 #medievalbodies 🌍 Thinking lots about #maps recently, so thought I'd share some favourites. Today, #Sicily from a 1553 edition of al-Idrisi's 'Nuzhat al-Mushtaq'. @bodleianlibs Pococke 375: goo.gl/Wn6Yvr #medieval #art #manuscript #twitterstorians #histmed #sciart #map #island
🌍 #medievalbodies 🌍 Thinking lots about #maps recently, so thought I'd share some favourites. Today, #Jerusalem from Paolino Veneto's Chronologia Magna, c.1330 @britishlibrary Egerton 1500: goo.gl/czkqjU #medieval #twitterstorians #histmed #sciart #map #city #art
🌀 #medievalbodies 🌀 #Doctor holding a string of entrails from a #Latin translation of Avicenna's 'Canon'. @DigitaVaticana MS Urb Lat 241: goo.gl/NXCndM #medieval #histmed #sciart #medicine #art #historyofart #stomach #intestines #cure #manuscript #sick
🧠 #medievalbodies 💀 This week: the 'Nine System Figures', a group of medieval anatomical images showing various networks and organs of the body. Today, more veins @DigitaVaticana PLat.1110 (13thC) #medieval #medicine #historyofart #histmed #sciart #anatomy #art #medicine #blood #veins
🧠 #medievalbodies 💀 This week: the Nine System Figures, a group of medieval anatomical images showing networks and organs of the body. Today, the bones (with two lots of teeth) in Lobkowicz VI FC 29 (c.1350) #medieval #medicine #histmed #sciart #anatomy #art #bones #teeth #historyofart #smile #saycheese