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
Georg J. Kamel: Natural Knowledge in Transit
This Santorio Lecture is concerned with the communications of medical and natural knowledge between the Philippines and Europe at the
Literature and Medical Thought in 13th-Century Italy
In this Santorio Lecture, Matteo Pace argues that the medical milieu of the 13th century contributed to shaping vernacular secular
Surgeons, Midwives and the Question of Shame in Early Modern Germany
In the first half of the 18th century, the concept of birth clinics emerged in Germany, where male obstetricians, so-called