The Cold Female Body in Oliva Sabuco
Long regarded as an exceptional voice in early modern thought, Oliva Sabuco is revisited by Jil Müller, who reconstructs her
Leprosy in the Medieval Mediterranean
In this lecture, Dr Anna Gili examines the treatment of leprosy in the Kitāb al-Malakī, offering new insights into medieval
Galen’s Remedies Beyond the Renaissance
Why did Galenic pharmacopoeia survive for nearly two millennia? This lecture explores the intellectual, cultural, and practical reasons behind its
Life Forms in Premodern Philosophy
Few texts in history have enjoyed the centrality of Aristotle’s De Anima. The work presupposes and at the same time
Deafness in the Premodern Mediterranean
This VivaMente conference explores deafness and the deaf person in the premodern period through historical, medical, and socio-cultural perspectives.
Staying Fresh in Early Byzantium
The lecture will focus on a group of selected illustrative recipes for body cleansers and powdered deodorants from Book VIII
The Colour of Dreams
This talk examines how dream colours were linked to the humours in medieval Arabic and Latin texts, tracing their transmission
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
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,