
What if the Scientific Revolution was not the birth of modern science, but a shorter and deeper transformation in how
Through an examination of Katharina Kepler's witchcraft trial, Marco Ghione shows how ambiguous bodily symptoms were transformed into legal evidence
This presentation will review newly-uncovered information about the background to Rupescissa's "De famulatu philosophie" (1352 ). Specifically: where it travelled,
Long regarded as an exceptional voice in early modern thought, Oliva Sabuco is revisited by Jil Müller, who reconstructs her
In this lecture, Dr Anna Gili examines the treatment of leprosy in the Kitāb al-Malakī, offering new insights into medieval
Why did Galenic pharmacopoeia 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.

Through an examination of Katharina Kepler's witchcraft trial, Marco Ghione shows how ambiguous bodily symptoms were transformed into legal evidence
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
Franciscus Sylvius and his pupil Reinier de Graaf transformed iatrochemistry from a speculative medical theory into a clinically grounded and
How were miners affected by their work? This article traces the illnesses they faced, the vocabulary they created to describe
Paul Sandro Heidelbach explores a 1688 satire that linked Kenelm Digby’s "sympathetic powder" to a supposed method for finding longitude
