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 Zaidmann-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,
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
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