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Future Events / Online LecturesIs nobility an innate virtue or not? In their respective reflections on nobility and individual differences, Dante and Cecco d’Ascoli invoke the example of twins, arguing that one twin may be ‘noble’ while the other is not.24/06/2025
Future Events / Summer SchoolsThis summer school will offer an overview of the current state of the art in the fields of early modern anatomy and surgery, of the major historiographical debates, and of promising perspectives and sources for future research.08/07/2025
Conferences and Webinars / Future Events / VivaMente ConferencesThis VivaMente Conference examines the interplay between medicine and society in the Late Middle Ages, assessing how medical theories, practices, and language both shaped and were shaped by philosophical, theological, and political thought.16/07/2025
Future Events / Online LecturesIn the late medieval world, managing health was as integral to merchant identity as navigating markets or maintaining ledgers.22/07/2025
Conferences and Webinars / Future EventsThis conference explores the creation and dissemination of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern Europe within established and informal networks.22/10/2025
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Online Lectures / Past EventsThis talk will discuss the issues surrounding the identification of medical practitioners and how registers could be used to analyse changes in medical practice.10/06/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis talk explores metabolism as a concept in the history of biology, using it as starting point for the exploration of a wider metaphorical level: the regulation of the relationship, material as much as conceptual, between self and non-self, and between human and environment (consumption and dietetics, processing, travel, trade, [...]27/05/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsIs it possible to discern what is concealed within the human soul through what is outwardly manifest? This lecture will explore attempts to contextualise the reasoning characteristic of physiognomic practices as sign-based inference within the medieval Arabic tradition.06/05/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis talk delves into the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt as preserved and practiced by the Copts, who have inherited and adapted a rich medical tradition that dates back to the time of the pharaohs.22/04/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis talk will present the results of research in progress into the role of the Venice’s Health Office in monitoring and managing the city’s freshwater supply during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.08/04/2025
Past EventsInvestigating extractive processes in the making of medicines, this talk provides an analysis of animal treatment and killing techniques recommended in a series of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italian manuscripts recipes predominantly authored by elite domestic practitioners.25/03/2025
Conferences and Webinars / Past EventsThis series explores women’s contributions to various medically relevant fields and practices such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation and selection, as well as midwifery.
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis talk shows how Thurneisser’s analogy between bodily and technical processes offered a new and lucrative diagnostic technique that changed the agencies of patients and practitioners.11/03/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsBy looking at a variety of case studies, this lecture will explore how astrology figured in disputations in several early modern universities, ultimately disappearing from disputation literature over the course of the eighteenth century.25/02/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsBy highlighting the body’s role as a channel for affecting the soul, this lecture situates Della Porta’s dietary recommendations within the broader framework of Renaissance physiognomics11/02/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsIn this talk, Vivian Nutton explores some of the consequences of these discoveries for our understanding of Vesalius and his “Fabrica” from his time in Paris in the in the 1530s right through until the last years of his career as royal physician.30/01/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis lecture aims to examine how illness is represented in a collection of legends surrounding the foundation of Italian Marian sanctuaries, written in the early 18th century and drawing on earlier sources.16/01/2025
Online Lectures / Past EventsIn this lecture, Manuel Huth discusses the development of the “phantasia” discourse and how it lead to a rationalization of seemingly supernatural mental states.17/12/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsBy analysing the rhetorical strategies in the cold drinking debate, this lecture shows that physicians used knowledge of global environments and transhistorical time to assess the locally practiced habit of everyday consumption.03/12/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis lecture explores Galen’s theories on contagion and how he conceptualised the movement of illness through physical interactions and the implications for understanding mental and bodily health.18/11/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis lecture examines Ambroise Paré’s pioneering contributions to surgery, including treatments for gunshot wounds and post-wound infections.05/11/2024
Past Events / VivaMente ConferencesThis VivaMente Conference investigates the relationship between narrative, rhetorical persuasion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case-histories.24/10/2024
Conferences and Webinars / Past EventsThis conference explores the use of alchemical remedies and processes in the cultural and intellectual context of pre-modern Europe, focusing especially on medical alchemy, whose ultimate goal was to create the elixir, a universal remedy capable of curing all diseases.22/10/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsLike the cosmos, the healthy human body displays a hierarchical organization, a model for the political order of the virtuous city. The lecture will introduce al-Fārābī’s physiology and idea of medicine through commented readings from these works.
Online Lectures / Past EventsBy exploring and commenting on some Galenic loci in Rabelais’ “Gargantua and Pantagruel” (c. 1532-1564), Guido Giglioni uncovers the role of the stomach and intestines as a “second brain”.08/10/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsIn this lecture, Paula De Vos explores the interaction of Galenic medicine and indegenous knowledge by analysing a series of texts of “rustic medicine” containing recipes for home-made pharmaceutical remedies that could be prepared in places “where there is no pharmacy”.30/09/2024
Conferences and Webinars / Events / Past EventsThis event honours the late Prof. Giuseppe Ongaro (1936-2023) with a one-day conference dedicated to exploring his multifaceted legacy in the history of medicine.27/09/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis lecture examines Ambroise Paré’s pioneering contributions to surgery, including treatments for gunshot wounds and post-wound infections.
Online Lectures / Past EventsIn this talk, Audrey Borowski highlights the continuity between Leibniz’s conception of life and that of an ideal society along with the tensions that this generates in his thought.16/07/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsDavid Gentilcore explores how uses and consumption of plain water affected medical practice and everyday life.02/07/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsGalen is one of the best sources on ancient nutrition and diet: he has little interest in luxury fashions, he records regular seasonal famines, and is at home in the fields talking to peasants as much as he is in the salons of his wealthy clients.27/06/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis talk explores Cesalpino’s “De Plantis”, which laid the foundations of scientific systematics and became a milestone in the history of Western botany11/06/2024
Conferences and Webinars / Online Lectures / Past EventsThis series explores women’s contributions to various medically relevant fields and practices such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation and selection, as well as midwifery.08/05/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsThis talk examines several late sixteenth-century anatomical works that adopted either the terms and or methods of analysis and synthesis.09/04/2024
Online Lectures / Past EventsIn this lecture, I will discuss the “confit d’en cases” or “confectio infantium”, a remedy for breastfed infants with colic, meteorism, and aerophagia.19/03/2024