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RETHINKING THE HISTORY OF LEPROSY IN THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN - A. Gili (Padua)GALEN'S REMEDIES BEYOND THE RENAISSANCE - F. Bigotti (CSMBR) and J. Wilkins (Exeter)STAYING FRESH IN EARLY BYZANTIUM - M. Kokoszko and Z. Rzeźnicka (University of Łódź)THE COLOUR OF DREAMS. The Physiology of Oneiric Experience - M. Signori (IMT Lucca)YIDDISH MEDICINE IN TIMES OF EPIDEMICS - D. Zaidman-Mauer (University of Amsterdam)ORBS OF BLOOD IN 14TH-CENTURY PERSIA - B. Kavoussi (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)1 / 26
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HIGHLIGHTS
Long regarded as an exceptional voice in early modern thought, Oliva Sabuco is revisited by Jil Müller, who reconstructs her
In this lecture, Dr Anna Gili examines the treatment of leprosy in the Kitāb al-Malakī, offering new insights into medieval
Why did Galenic pharmacopoeia survive for nearly two millennia? This lecture explores the intellectual, cultural, and practical reasons behind its
This VivaMente conference explores deafness and the deaf person in the premodern period through historical, medical, and socio-cultural perspectives.
Few texts in history have enjoyed the centrality of Aristotle’s De Anima. The work presupposes and at the same time
The lecture will focus on a group of selected illustrative recipes for body cleansers and powdered deodorants from Book VIII
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Few texts in history have enjoyed the centrality of Aristotle’s De Anima. The work presupposes and at the same time
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FORMA FLUENS
The article follows cancer and lupus as unstable names in medieval medicine, constantly displaced by what physicians did, what texts
Franciscus Sylvius and his pupil Reinier de Graaf transformed iatrochemistry from a speculative medical theory into a clinically grounded and
Medieval physicians interpreted the brain through uroscopy, tracing a diagnostic reasoning that linked urine, humoral imbalance, and cerebral function. This
“Dell’Elettricismo” (1746) was the first Italian treatise to systematically connect electricity with physiology and medical practice. By analysing its experiments
How were miners affected by their work? This article traces the illnesses they faced, the vocabulary they created to describe
Paul Sandro Heidelbach explores a 1688 satire that linked Kenelm Digby’s "sympathetic powder" to a supposed method for finding longitude
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MEDIA GALLERY
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