Some of the plants mentioned by Dioscorides are still used in modern pharmacopoeias. One such plant is the mandrake which

In this talk, Marco Papasidero focuses specifically on the thaumaturgical remedies used by devotees to cure their illnesses with the

Drawing upon several chapters of the book: "On the Edge of Eternity. The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and

In this lecture, the art historian Joana Balsa de Pinho sheds light on the institutional transformations that led to changes

Would you be comfortable with your doctor's uncertainty about whether to suture your wound with silk thread or metallic wire?

This Vivamente Conference in the History of Ideas addresses a broad spectrum of issues to do with fertility (and infertility),

Some of the plants mentioned by Dioscorides are still used in modern pharmacopoeias. One such plant is the mandrake which

Would you be comfortable with your doctor's uncertainty about whether to suture your wound with silk thread or metallic wire?

The "Kitāb al-Malakī" (or 'Royal Book', KM), written by the Zoroastrian physician ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAbbas al-Maǧūsī is one of the