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“Virtus Formativa” in Albert the Great’s Embryology
Literature and Medical Thought in 13th-Century Italy
Georg J. Kamel: Natural Knowledge in Transit
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The centre
History
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Domvs Comeliana
Funding Institutions
University of Exeter
Yale University
University of Würzburg
Studio Firmano
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Contact us
Community
Governing Board
Permanent Members
Associate Members
Effective Members
Artists in Residence
Linda Karshan
Events
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Online Lectures Series
Upcoming Lectures
Melancholy and Fever in the Early Modern Period
Poisoning and Suspicious Deaths in the Classical World
The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered
Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge and Hellenistic Epistemologies
Food, Famine and Social Class
Past Lectures
Conferences and Webinars
Early Modern Galenic Pharmacology
Measuring Health and the Body
Dante and the Sciences of the Human
Extreme Bodies
Expanding the Limits of Academic Medicine
Santorio Lectures
The Actualisation of the Ideal Human in the Works of Roger Bacon
“Virtus Formativa” in Albert the Great’s Embryology
Literature and Medical Thought in 13th-Century Italy
Georg J. Kamel: Natural Knowledge in Transit
VivaMente Conferences
2022 – From Automata to Transhumans
2020 – Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
Summer Schools
2023 – Intensity and the Grades of Nature
2021 – Latitudes of the Body
2019 – The Kiln, The Alembic, and the Clockwork
Exhibitions
The Universe on Paper
Research Grants
Comèl Grant
Comèl Grantees
VivaMente Grant
VivaMente Grantees
Santorio Award
Santorio Awardees
Honourable Mentions
Santorio Fellowship
Santorio Fellows
Santorio Global Fellowship
Publications
PSMEMM Book Series
Volumes Published
Publish With Us
Blog ‘Forma Fluens’
News
Arbor Newsletter
Participants’ Experience
Summer School 2021
Summer School 2019
Multimedia
Video Lectures
Educationals
Interviews
Discover the CSMBR
Photo Gallery
The Universe on Paper 2022
VivaMente 2022
Santorio Award 2022
Summer School 2019
Santorio Fellowship 2019
Santorio Fellowship 2017
Santorio Conference 2017
Join & Support
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Upcoming Events
Melancholy and Fever in the Early Modern Period
Future Events / Online Lectures
In this lecture, Jil Muller explores the role that Montagne and Descartes associate with the mesentery, the influence of Montaigne and Platter on Montaigne and whether Descartes’ thoughts on the matter changed over time.
19/01/2023
Poisoning and Suspicious Deaths in the Classical World
Future Events / Online Lectures
Building on the latest research findings, this paper proposes to further explore the dialectic between, and the parallel development of, forensic rhetoric and Roman law in the 1st century CE with regard to the criminalisation of poisoning
21/02/2023
Early 17th-Century Physicians and the Peregrinatio Academica
Future Events / Online Lectures
This lecture explores Johann Schreck Terentius’ medical profile and journeys across Europe as part of a holistic education in the ‘encyclopedic’ tradition of Lull, Ramus but also with a strong mathematical component.
14/03/2023
The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered
Conferences and Webinars / Future Events / Online Lectures
This paper focuses on the system of quarantine stations in the early modern Mediterranean.
14/12/2022
Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge and Hellenistic Epistemologies
Future Events / Online Lectures
In this lecture, Prof. Harari explains why the account of the principles of demonstration found in the Greek commentary tradition on Aristotle’s “Posterior Analytics” is significantly different from Aristotle’s own account.
06/06/2023
Intensity and the Grades of Nature
Events / Future Events / Summer Schools
This summer school will explore how heat, colour, and sound have been used, conceptualised and graded in the pre-modern cosmos shaping both disciplines of knowledge and everyday life.
11/07/2023
Food, Famine and Social Class
Future Events / Online Lectures
Galen 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.
24/10/2023
Past Events
Measuring the Intensity of Diseases
Online Lectures / Past Events
In this lecture, Fabrizio Bigotti analyses how the problem of the intensity of forces is taken over in medicine and how is then developed and transformed into the preoperational theory which sustained the invention of precision instruments by Santorio Santori (1561-1636).
18/01/2023
Early Modern Galen’s Pharmacology
Conferences and Webinars / Past Events
The conference will focus on the early modern reception of Galenic pharmacology up to the late seventeenth century.
15/12/2022
Sweat it Out!
Online Lectures / Past Events
This paper argues how perspiration could undergo a drastic reconceptualisation in eighteenth-century medicine. Thanks to Santorio Santori’s famous studies with the weighing chair, the ancient notion of insensible perspiration continued to be perceived as essential to one’s health.
Imagining and Experiencing the Great Pox in Renaissance Florence
Online Lectures / Past Events
Building on the approaches and findings of recent studies of early modern England, Germany and Spain, this lecture will compare the experience and representation of female and male Pox patients through the examination of both written and visual evidence.
11/11/2022
The Universe on Paper
Exhibitions / Past Events
The exhibition will display a fine selection of drawings produced by distinguished artist Linda Karshan (Minneapolis, 1947) over various periods of her career.
13/10/2022
Persuasive Arguments in Galen’s Physiology
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
In this lecture I will explore these questions on the basis of two specific examples: the discussion about the use of the so-called glandular helpers in the treatise “On Semen” and an argument about the use of breathing in the work “On the Use of Breathing”.
12/10/2022
The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
In this lecture, we describe our newly published edition and commentary on Nottingham MS Pw V90: a manuscript collection of recipes and letters that William and Margaret Cavendish compiled between approximately 1647 and 1654.
05/10/2022
Going Beyond Weight-Watchers
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
In this talk, Fabrizio Bigotti and Jonathan Barry discuss the contribution that the Venetian physician Santorio Santori (1561-1636) made to the foundation of evidence-based medicine.
22/09/2022
Between Trust and Controversy
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
In this lecture, Michael Stolberg will focus on a major aspect of Renaissance learned medicine by looking at the interactions between physicians and their patients.
13/09/2022
Paduan Physicians and Heretics
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
The case study presented will challenge current views by presenting disturbing evidence of foreign London residents having to join English intelligence operations, thereby bidding farewell to their country of origin for good, or else face deadly prospects.
12/07/2022
The Muse of the Lens
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
This talk examines the effect of the telescopic and microscopic gaze upon English poetic production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
19/05/2022
The Enlightenment and the History of Deep Time
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
This lecture explains the rationale behind a new survey of history in the period, which relies on a wide range of primary and unfamiliar texts drawn from across Europe from Moldavia to Portugal.
04/05/2022
From Automata to Transhumans
Past Events / VivaMente Conferences
This edition of the Vivamente Conference in the History of Ideas intends to shed new light on the early modern origins of automata, to discuss the impact of their legacy throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
22/04/2022
“Virtus Formativa” in Albert the Great’s Embryology
Past Events / Santorio Lectures
Through an interdisciplinary approach, this Santorio Lecture will explore Albert’s doctrine on formative power and its pivotal role in the dynamics of configuration and transmission of the living.
22/04/2022
The Actualisation of the Ideal Human in the Works of Roger Bacon
Past Events / Santorio Lectures
In this Santorio Lecture, Meagan Allen examines how Bacon incorporated the centuries-old tradition of the physical resurrection body into his alchemical-medical program.
21/04/2022
Medical Alchemy in Renaissance Florence
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
This lecture will revolve around a painting of an alchemical laboratory created by Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605), a Flemish-born artist settled in Florence.
13/04/2022
The Skin of Saint Bartholomew
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
This talk sets out to explore the iconography of St Bartholomew, placing special emphasis upon skin and the act of skin removal.
24/03/2022
Sources and Problems in Renaissance Medicine
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
This lecture explains the rationale behind a new survey of history in the period, which relies on a wide range of primary and unfamiliar texts drawn from across Europe from Moldavia to Portugal.
15/03/2022
Surgeons, Midwives and the Question of Shame in Early Modern Germany
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
In the first half of the 18th century, the concept of birth clinics emerged in Germany, where male obstetricians, so-called accoucheurs, were trained.
22/02/2022
Art and Internal Anatomy
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
Building on Prof. Kleinbub’s research on Michelangelo’s investment in internal anatomical matters, this talk proposes that other artists of his time.
08/02/2022
Measuring Health and the Body
Conferences and Webinars / Past Events
This seminar will present how and why the pre-modern body was measured and explore how new methods of measuring, quantifying, and understanding the body affected early modern medical theory and practice.
25/01/2022
Principles Beyond Ordinary Practice
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
Identifying the medical conditions mentioned in the ancient literature, be these medical or otherwise, is a challenging task in medical history.
11/11/2021
Dante and the Sciences of the Human
Conferences and Webinars / Past Events
The CSMBR joins the worldwide celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death (1321-2021) with an international online symposium dedicated to Dante’s poetical and scientific mind.
23/10/2021
Identifying Pathologies through Therapy
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
Identifying the medical conditions mentioned in the ancient literature, be these medical or otherwise, is a challenging task in medical history.
30/09/2021
Extreme Bodies
Conferences and Webinars / Past Events
This joint panel between the University of Vienna and the CSMBR, presents some of these entanglements between weight, norm and excess in the early modern period.
18/09/2021
Latitudes of the Body
Past Events / Summer Schools
The Summer School will explore theories, applications, problems, and contexts of human-based measurements across the late medieval and early modern period (c.1400-1700).
21/07/2021
Expanding the Limits of Academic Medicine
Conferences and Webinars / Past Events
This webinar explores the different ways in which medicine developed beyond the traditional boundaries of an academic discipline
22/04/2021
A Natural History of the Soul
Online Lectures / Past Events / Past Lectures
In this lecture, Fabrizio Bigotti explores the Renaissance rediscovery of Galenic anatomy and how it impacted the making of early modern philosophy.
26/03/2021
Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
Past Events / VivaMente Conferences
The first edition of the Vivamente Conference in the History of Ideas aims at drawing attention to the place of medical knowledge, practice and experimentation in Descartes’ philosophy.
20/11/2020
Literature and Medical Thought in 13th-Century Italy
Past Events / Santorio Lectures
In this Santorio Lecture, Matteo Pace argues that the medical milieu of the 13th century contributed to shaping vernacular secular culture.
20/11/2020