Medical Views on Sexual Pleasure in the Renaissance
What did physicians in the Renaissance think about sexual pleasure? And how did they approach the female body? This paper
What did physicians in the Renaissance think about sexual pleasure? And how did they approach the female body? This paper
Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab is a new format for the Winter School, designed to meet the needs of those who,
In the late medieval world, managing health was as integral to merchant identity as navigating markets or maintaining ledgers.
This VivaMente Conference examines the interplay between medicine and society in the Late Middle Ages, assessing how medical theories, practices,
This talk will discuss the issues surrounding the identification of medical practitioners and how registers could be used to analyse
Is nobility an innate virtue or not? In their respective reflections on nobility and individual differences, Dante and Cecco d’Ascoli invoke the
This talk explores metabolism as a concept in the history of biology, using it as starting point for the exploration
Through an analysis of trade manuals, personal notebooks (zibaldoni), and family records, Massimo Sbarbaro illustrates how merchants were not only
This conference explores the creation and dissemination of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern Europe within established and
This article traces how seventeenth-century Naples became a crucible for alchemical debate over the elusive language of the universal cure.