From Automata to Transhumans
This edition of the Vivamente Conference in the History of Ideas intends to shed new light on the early modern origins of
The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish
In this lecture, we describe our newly published edition and commentary on Nottingham MS Pw V90: a manuscript collection of recipes and
Latitudes of the Body
The Summer School will explore theories, applications, problems, and contexts of human-based measurements across the late medieval and early modern
The Kiln, The Alembic, and the Clockwork
The summer school explores how the representation of the body and its functions changed from antiquity to the early modern period
Measuring Health and the Body
This seminar will present how and why the pre-modern body was measured and explore how new methods of measuring, quantifying,
Extreme Bodies
This joint panel between the University of Vienna and the CSMBR, presents some of these entanglements between weight, norm and
Art and Internal Anatomy
Building on Prof. Kleinbub's research on Michelangelo’s investment in internal anatomical matters, this talk proposes that other artists of his
Dante and the Sciences of the Human
The CSMBR joins the worldwide celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death (1321-2021) with an international online symposium
Sources and Problems in Renaissance Medicine
This lecture explains the rationale behind a new survey of history in the period, which relies on a wide range
“Virtus Formativa” in Albert the Great’s Embryology
Through an interdisciplinary approach, this Santorio Lecture will explore Albert’s doctrine on formative power and its pivotal role in the