Rupescissa’s Quintessential Medicine
This presentation will review newly-uncovered information about the background to Rupescissa's "De famulatu philosophie" (1352 ). Specifically: where it travelled,
From the French Pox to Lues Venerea
Drawing on city council records, Monica O'Brien examines how ideas about sexual and non-sexual contagion shaped medical responses and aid
A Cure for Lovesickness
What are the main similarities and differences between the poetical and medical representations of love in 14th-century Italy. This lecture’s
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.