Melancholy and Fever in the Early Modern Period
In this lecture, Jil Muller explores the role that Montagne and Descartes associate with the mesentery, the influence of Montaigne
Poisoning and Suspicious Deaths in the Classical World
Building on the latest research findings, this paper proposes to further explore the dialectic between, and the parallel development of,
Early 17th-Century Physicians and the Peregrinatio Academica
This lecture explores Johann Schreck Terentius’ medical profile and journeys across Europe as part of a holistic education in the
Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge and Hellenistic Epistemologies
In this lecture, Prof. Harari explains why the account of the principles of demonstration found in the Greek commentary tradition
Food, Famine and Social Class
Galen is one of the best sources on ancient nutrition and diet: he has little interest in luxury fashions, he
Intensity and the Grades of Nature
This summer school will explore how heat, colour, and sound have been used, conceptualised and graded in the pre-modern cosmos
Early Modern Galen’s Pharmacology
The conference will focus on the early modern reception of Galenic pharmacology up to the late seventeenth century.
Sweat it Out!
This paper argues how perspiration could undergo a drastic reconceptualisation in eighteenth-century medicine. Thanks to Santorio Santori’s famous studies with
The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered
This paper focuses on the system of quarantine stations in the early modern Mediterranean.
Drinking Water Cures and the Body in 17th-Century Tuscany
Bacon believed that the key to extending life lay not in the curricula as taught in the medical faculties of