In this lecture, Dr Anna Gili examines the treatment of leprosy in the Kitāb al-Malakī, offering new insights into medieval
Why did Galenic pharmacology survive for nearly two millennia? This lecture explores the intellectual, cultural, and practical reasons behind its
Few texts in history have enjoyed the centrality of Aristotle’s De Anima. The work presupposes and at the same time
This VivaMente conference explores deafness and the deaf person in the premodern period through historical, medical, and socio-cultural perspectives.
The lecture will focus on a group of selected illustrative recipes for body cleansers and powdered deodorants from Book VIII
This talk examines how dream colours were linked to the humours in medieval Arabic and Latin texts, tracing their transmission
Few texts in history have enjoyed the centrality of Aristotle’s De Anima. The work presupposes and at the same time
This VivaMente conference explores deafness and the deaf person in the premodern period through historical, medical, and socio-cultural perspectives.
Set against the world of cheap print and wonder literature, this article investigates the case of a Spanish nun who
The article examines "Causae et curae" and the "Physica "to show that Hildegard explains disease through the corruption of the
Through the case of Pere d’Olesa and other Spanish physicians, the article shows how geographical mobility enabled medical careers to
The article follows cancer and lupus as unstable names in medieval medicine, constantly displaced by what physicians did, what texts
Franciscus Sylvius and his pupil Reinier de Graaf transformed iatrochemistry from a speculative medical theory into a clinically grounded and
Medieval physicians interpreted the brain through uroscopy, tracing a diagnostic reasoning that linked urine, humoral imbalance, and cerebral function. This
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