Yiddish Medicine in Times of Epidemics
In this lecture, Daniella Zaidman-Mauer examines how Yiddish texts articulated integrated medical and religious responses to epidemic disease in early
Orbs of Blood in 14th-Century Persia
A fourteenth-century Persian text on Chinese medicine describes blood “making rounds” through the body; what this implies for the history
Sexual Transformation and Galenism
Set against the world of cheap print and wonder literature, this article investigates the case of a Spanish nun who
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,
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
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
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
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