The Muse of the Lens
This talk examines the effect of the telescopic and microscopic gaze upon English poetic production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
This talk examines the effect of the telescopic and microscopic gaze upon English poetic production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
This paper argues how perspiration could undergo a drastic reconceptualisation in eighteenth-century medicine.
This paper focuses on the system of quarantine stations in the early modern Mediterranean.
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.
Building on Prof. Kleinbub’s research on Michelangelo’s investment in internal anatomical matters, this talk proposes that other artists of his time.
This Santorio Lecture is concerned with the communications of medical and natural knowledge between the Philippines and Europe at the turn of the eighteenth century.
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.
In this lecture, Fabrizio Bigotti explores the Renaissance rediscovery of Galenic anatomy and how it impacted the making of early modern philosophy.
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.
In this Santorio Lecture, Matteo Pace argues that the medical milieu of the 13th century contributed to shaping vernacular secular culture.
This webinar explores the different ways in which medicine developed beyond the traditional boundaries of an academic discipline
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.
This talk sets out to explore the iconography of St Bartholomew, placing special emphasis upon skin and the act of skin removal.
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.
This lecture will revolve around a painting of an alchemical laboratory created by Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605), a Flemish-born artist settled in Florence.
In this Santorio Lecture, Meagan Allen examines how Bacon incorporated the centuries-old tradition of the physical resurrection body into his alchemical-medical program.
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.
In the first half of the 18th century, the concept of birth clinics emerged in Germany, where male obstetricians, so-called accoucheurs, were trained.
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.
Identifying the medical conditions mentioned in the ancient literature, be these medical or otherwise, is a challenging task in medical history.
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.
Identifying the medical conditions mentioned in the ancient literature, be these medical or otherwise, is a challenging task in medical history.
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).
The summer school explores how the representation of the body and its functions changed from antiquity to the early modern period and how technology alters the perception of what we are as human animals.