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
The Actualisation of the Ideal Human in the Works of Roger Bacon
In this Santorio Lecture, Meagan Allen examines how Bacon incorporated the centuries-old tradition of the physical resurrection body into his
Imagining and Experiencing the Great Pox in Renaissance Florence
Building on the approaches and findings of recent studies of early modern England, Germany and Spain, this lecture will compare the
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
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
A Natural History of the Soul
In this lecture, Fabrizio Bigotti explores the Renaissance rediscovery of Galenic anatomy and how it impacted the making of early
Medical Alchemy in Renaissance Florence
This lecture will revolve around a painting of an alchemical laboratory created by Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605), a Flemish-born artist settled
The Skin of Saint Bartholomew
This talk sets out to explore the iconography of St Bartholomew, placing special emphasis upon skin and the act of
Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
The first edition of the Vivamente Conference in the History of Ideas aims at drawing attention to the place of medical