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Past Lectures
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2024
Andreas Blank
Too Complex to Explain?
Poisons, Antidotes, and Emergent Properties in the Early Modern Period
Razieh Sadat Mousavi
Ptolemaic Theories in Galenic Language
Al-Farghani’s “Elements of Astronomy” at the Meeting Point of Astronomical and Medical Traditions
Ian Maclean
Cardano's Late Writings
The Roman Years (1571-1576) in the Context of Renaissance Philosophy
Sylvain Roudaut
Action, Resistance, and Force
Debating the Law of Reaction in Natural Philosophy and Medicine (1300-1600)
Pablo José Alcover Cateura
Childbearing in the Early Modern Period
Breastfeeding Remedies in the Kingdom of Majorca (1470-1778)
Tawrin Baker
A Dead Eye is not Really an Eye
Analysis and Synthesis in Sixteenth-Century Anatomy
Quentin Hiernaux & Corentin Tresnie
Cesalpino and Aristotelian Science
The Transformation of Medical Botany in the 16th Century
John Wilkins
Food, Famine, and Social Class
Galen on Food and Diet in the Roman Empire
David Gentilcore
Drinking Plain Water in the Early Modern Period
Disease Prevention and Therapeutics
Audrey Borowsky
Emulating God on Earth
Leibniz on the Organisation of Life and the Structure of Ideas Societies
Elena Berger
Ambroise Paré and His Context
Mapping the Territory of a Renaissance Surgeon
Paula De Vos
Medicine on the Margins of Colonial Mexico
Galenic Pharmacy in Home-Made Remedies
Guido Giglioni
The Wonders of Gastroscience in Rabelais
A Few Galenic Salvos from the Renaissance
Cecilia Martini Bonadeo
The Human Body according to al-Farabi
An Image of the Cosmos and a Model of the Virtuous City
Marco Vespa
Non-Human Animals and Ancient Medicine
A Shared History in the Constitution of Medical Knowledge
Brooke Holmes
Galen on Contagion and Material Imagination
A Reading of “On Problematical Movements”
Anna Speyart
On the Risks and Benefits of Ice-Cold Drinks
Global Environments and the Local Stakes of an Early Modern Medical Debate
Manuel Huth
Demons, Imagination, and Mental Illness.
Medical Disputations on Phantasia in 17th-Century Wittenberg (1593-1643)
2023
Fabrizio Bigotti
Measuring the Intensity of Diseases
New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments
Jil Muller
Melancholy and Fever in the Early Modern Period
The Role of the Mesentery in Descartes and Montaigne
Nephele Papkanstantinou
Poisoning and Suspicious Deaths in the Classical World
Venoms in Roman Legal and Rhetorical Treatises
Noël Golvers
Early 17th-Century Physicians and the "Peregrinatio Academica"
The Case of Johan Schreck Terrentius (1576-1630)
Joana M. Balsa Carvalho De Pinho
Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity
Solutions, Models, and Practices
Ivano Dal Prete
On the Edge of Eternity
Deep Time and Vernacular Science in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Nuno Castel-Branco
At the Roots of 17th-Century Geology
Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686) from Human Anatomy to Fossils
Marina Inì
The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered
The Materiality of Quarantine in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Orna Harari
Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge and Hellenistic Epistemologies
The Ancient Commentary Tradition
Meagan Allen
Delaying Death
The Role of Alchemy in Roger Bacon’s Works
Edoardo Pierini
From Dangerous Drug to Miraculous Medicine
Uses, Abuses, and Medical Rationale of Opium in the Early Modern Period
Luana Salvarani
The Right Man in the Right Place
Education, Pre-Eugenics, and the Brain in Huarte’s “Examen de Ingenios”
Marco Papasidero
Miraculous Healings
Thaumaturgical Practices and Saints’ Devotion in Early Modern Sicily
Stefania Buosi-Moncunill
The Golden Wine or the Fifth Essence
John of Rupescissa’s Medical Alchemy
Irene Calà
Sickness and Healing in Byzantium
From the Imperial Court to the City Hospitals
Amalia Cerrito
Plastic Forces and Medieval Theories of Generation
Albert the Great and the “Virtus Formativa”
2022
Christian Kleinbub
Art and Internal Anatomy
Michelangelo, Bronzino and Mannerist Bodies
Sabine Schlegelmilch
'It is More Respectable for Women to Deal with Such Things'
Surgeons, Midwives and the Question of Shame in Early Modern Germany
Vivian Nutton
Sources and Problems in Renaissance Medicine
Rewriting the History of Western Medicine
Giulia Martina Weston
The Skin of Saint Bartholomew
Flaying Bodies in Early Modern Art and Anatomy
Georgiana Hedesan
Medical Alchemy in Renaissance Florence
Transforming Materials at Palazzo Vecchio and the Casino di San Marco
Ivano Dal Prete
The Enlightenment and the History of Deep Time
The Invention of a Historiographical Myth
Ivana Bicak
The Muse of the Lens
Microscopes, Telescopes and Poetic Imagination in 17th- and 18th-Century England
Vittoria Feola
Paduan Physicians and Heretics
Confessional Mobility and Intelligence in Elizabethan London
Michael Stolberg
Between Trust and Controversy
The Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Renaissance
Jonathan Barry & Fabrizio Bigotti
Going Beyond Weight-Watchers
Santorio and the Role of Medicine in the Quantification of Nature
Justin Begley & Benjamin Goldberg
The Medical World of Margareth Cavendish
Findings and Discoveries from the Manuscript Pw V90
Matyáš Havrda
Persuasive Arguments in Galen’s Physiology
A New Reading of “On Semen” and “On the Use of Breathing”
John Henderson
The War of Torments
Imagining and Experiencing the Great Pox in Renaissance Florence
Ruben Verwaal
Sweat It Out!
Insensible Perspiration in the Eighteenth Century
2021
Fabrizio Bigotti
A Natural History of the Soul
Galenic Themes in Early Modern Philosophy
Alain Touwaide
Identifying Pathologies through Therapy
A New Approach to Ancient Diseases
William R. Newman