Popular Diseases and Thaumaturgic Specialisations
This lecture aims to examine how illness is represented in a collection of legends surrounding the foundation of Italian Marian
Demons, Imagination and Mental Illness
In this lecture, Manuel Huth discusses the development of the "phantasia" discourse and how it lead to a rationalization of
Risks and Benefits of Ice-Cold Drinks
By analysing the rhetorical strategies in the cold drinking debate, this lecture shows that physicians used knowledge of global environments
Galen on Contagion and Material Imagination
This lecture explores Galen’s theories on contagion and how he conceptualised the movement of illness through physical interactions and the