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
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
The Brain in the Islamicate Tradition
Sharhzad Irannejed examines medieval Islamicate diagrams of the brain and its ventricles as variable scribal artefacts, arguing that their visual
Renaissance Debates on Occult Qualities
What are occult qualities, and why did they become a central problem in Renaissance natural philosophy and medicine? This lecture
The Ancient History of Sympathy
in this talk, Brooke Holmes presents the history of the ancient concept of "sympatheia", from the emergence of the language