Contrary to popular opinion, women were active in medieval science
as midwives, surgeons, cosmologists, and alchemists.
WOMEN and Medieval Science
ACROSS CLUES
1. In medieval warfare, women acted as battlefield __________. 7. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
10. Leftover from volcanos 11. German Airline 12. American Auto
Association (abbr.)
13. Weight unit in English system 14. 49th state 15. Broadway play: __ Time for _______.
17. In medieval times, people were interested in the after life, not ___
______. 18. Nurse (abbr).
20. Chemical symbol for cesium 22. Electron volt (abbr).
24. Water clocks kept time at _____.
26. Highway (abbr). 28. Symbol for titanium 29. French eye:
l'__ __ __ l 30. Not yes
32. Email address for Medieval literature festival 34. Swedish actress:
_____ Anderson
36. Maria the Jewess an alchemist invented: _________ boiler. 38. Chinese dumpling: hom _____.
39. Element named for the Rhine river (abbr). 40. First initials
of Lawrence of Arabia
41. Female principal of Chinese philosophy 42. Famous medieval
woman physician from Salerno.
43. Students at U. of Bologna learned anatomy from wax_______ of Anna
Manzolini, prof of medicine.
DOWN CLUES
1. City of first non-religious medical school with women on the faculty.2. Computer connector
3. Element No. 45 symbol 4. Wall-mounted animal 5. Euphemism for school Dexpulsion
6. Place where most medieval women scholars lived.7. U.S. space
agency
8.Surgeon Marie Colinet removed metal from eye with _______.9. Rodent which
spread plague.
14. Secretive chemist trying to make gold.16. Office of
Mangement (abbr). 19. Metal in coins
21. Device used by medieval chemists known as the "womb." 23. Cosmologist Hildegard of Bingen
experienced these ___________ in the 12th century.25. Internet command
27. Debutant (abbr).
31. Hildegard was dubbed the "________ of the Rhine." 32. German "but" 33. type of transistor
35. Release from jail 37. The philosophers' stone was colored
_____.39. Opposite of left.