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
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
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
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
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
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
Infectious Disease Histories
In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution
Health and Illness in Mining Communities
How were miners affected by their work? This article traces the illnesses they faced, the vocabulary they created to describe