Video Lectures

Too Complex to Explain? Poisons, Antidotes and Emergent Properties in the Early Modern Period

Plastic Forces and Medieval Theories of Generation. Albert the Great and the "Virtus Formativa"

Sickness and Healing in Byzantium: From the Imperial Court to the City Hospitals

The Golden Wine or the Fifth Essence: John of Rupescissa’s Medical Alchemy

The Right Man in the Right Place. Education, Pre-Eugenics, and the Brain in Huarte's 'Examen de Ingenios'

From Dangerous Drug to Miraculous Medicine. Uses, Abuses, and Medical Rationale of Opium in the Early Modern Period

Delaying Death. The Role of Alchemy in Roger Bacon's Medical Works

Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge and Hellenistic Epistemologies. The Principles of Knowledge in the Ancient Commentary Tradition

The System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered. The Materiality of Quarantine in the Early Modern Mediterranean

At the Roots of 17th-Century Geology. Nicolaus Steno from Human Anatomy to Fossils

On the Edge of Eternity. Deep Time and Vernacular Science in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity. Solutions, Practices, and Models

Early 17th-Century Physicians and the "Peregrinatio Academica". The Case of Johann Schreck Terrentius (1576-1630)

Poisoning and Suspicious Deaths in the Classical World. Venoms in Roman Legal and Rhetorical Treatises

Melancholy and Fever in the Early Modern Period. The Role of the Mesentery in the Medical Texts of Montaigne and Descartes

Measuring the Intensity of Diseases. New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Precision Instruments

Sweat It Out!
Insensible Perspiration in the Eighteenth Century

The War of Torments.
Imagining & Experiencing the great Pox in Renaissance Florence

Persuasive Arguments in Galen's Physiology

The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish

Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine (Book launch)

Going Beyond Weight-Watchers. Santorio and the Role of Medicine in the Quantification of Nature

Between Trust and Controversy. The Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Renaissance

The Muse of the Lens. Microscopes, Telescopes and Poetic Imagination in England

The Enlightenment and the History of Deep Time. The History of a Historiographical Myth

The Skin of St Bartholomew. Flaying Bodies in Early Modern Art and Anatomy

Medical Alchemy in Renaissance Florence: Transforming Materials at Palazzo Vecchio and the Casino di San Marco

A Natural Resurrection? On God's Creation and the Human Body in "Paradiso" 7

Dante in the Renaissance Lovesickness Tradition

Of Earth and Water: Dante's 'Questio' in Context

Stolen Parts: Bodies and Thing Theory in Inferno 24-25

Anatomy of Florence: Illness and Body Politics in the Comedy

Surgeons, Midwives and the Question of Shame in Early Modern Germany

Sources and Problems in Renaissance Medicine. Rewriting the History of European Medicine

Principles Beyond Ordinary Practice: A New Picture of Isaac Newton's 'Chymystry'

Art and Internal Anatomy: Michelangelo, Bronzino and Mannerist Bodies

Academic Physicians and Popular Magic in the Renaissance

Identifying Pathologies through Therapy: A New Approach to Ancient Diseases

Surgeons Become Doctors: Anatomy as a Competitive Field Between Physicians and Other Medical Professions

Invisible Connections: Pores, Channels, and Vessels in Early Modern Anatomy

A Natural History of the Soul: Galenic Themes in Early Modern Philosophy

Medicine and the Birth of Humanist Education: Vergerio’s ‘De Ingenuis Moribus’

Santorio Lectures

"Homo Potens Non Mori"
The Actualisation of the Ideal Human in the Works of Roger Bacon

"Virtus Formativa"
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Albert the Great's Embryology

Georg Joseph Kamel S. J. (1661-1706): Natural Knowledge in Transit between the Philippines and Europe

Of Poets and Physicians
Literature and Medical Thought in Thirteenth-Century Italy

VivaMente Conference 2020

Medical Perspectives in Francis Bacon's "Sylva Sylvarum"

Epigenesis and Generative Powers in Descartes' Late-Scholastic Sources

Paré and Descartes on Sensations in Amputated Limbs

On Something Descartes Never Studied: Texts and Diagrams

Anatomical Debates on Hearts and Brains

Descartes' "Images of the Eye"

Reading Descartes 'En Physicien': The Case of Plemp

Madness and Dream in Descartes 'First Meditation'

From Animal Instinct to the Mind's Acknowledgement of '(in)commoda'

Descartes' Cartesian Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

Anti-Cartesian Motifs in Italian Medicine

Cartesian Medicine at the Court of Queen Christina of Sweden

A British Response to 'The Passions of the Soul'

Skeptical Mechanism in 17th- & 18th-Century Medicine

The Lost Academic Dictations of Henricus Regius

Régis and the Soul's Simplicty

Beyond Mechanical Life: Process in the 17th Century