Conferences and Webinars / Future 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.19/03/2025
Future Events / Online LecturesIs 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
Future Events / Online LecturesThis talk explores metabolism as concept of 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, analogy and [...]27/05/2025
Future Events / Online LecturesThis 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
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 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