Healing Like a Medieval Woman
The article examines "Causae et curae" and the "Physica "to show that Hildegard explains disease through the corruption of the
Pliny and Renaissance Gynaecology
This lecture examines how Renaissance gynaecological authors used Pliny the Elder’s "Natural History" as a source for medical knowledge, cases,
Matter Prepared, Form Received
Why do medicines work? This lecture revisits fourteenth-century Italy, where physicians such as Taddeo Alderotti and Dino del Garbo sought
Mobility in European Medicine
Through the case of Pere d’Olesa and other Spanish physicians, the article shows how geographical mobility enabled medical careers to
Servetus and the Circulation of the Blood
This lecture reassesses Michael Servetus’s account of pulmonary blood transit within its sixteenth-century theological and medical context, arguing that later
Problemata Literature in the 16th Century
In this lecture, Henrique Leitão shows how sixteenth-century 'Problemata literature' remained a flexible explanatory genre that allowed causal investigation without
Naming Cancer (13th-14th Centuries)
The article follows cancer and lupus as unstable names in medieval medicine, constantly displaced by what physicians did, what texts
From the Laboratory to the Bedside
Franciscus Sylvius and his pupil Reinier de Graaf transformed iatrochemistry from a speculative medical theory into a clinically grounded and
Medieval Uroscopy and the Brain
Medieval physicians interpreted the brain through uroscopy, tracing a diagnostic reasoning that linked urine, humoral imbalance, and cerebral function. This
Editing and Translating Philoponus
Focusing on Philoponus's commentary on Aristotle’s "Physics", this lecture will examine the recovery of the Greek text and its later