Few texts in history have enjoyed the centrality of Aristotle’s De Anima. The work presupposes and at the same time

This VivaMente conference explores deafness and the deaf person in the premodern period through historical, medical, and socio-cultural perspectives.

This talk examines how dream colours were linked to the humours in medieval Arabic and Latin texts, tracing their transmission

In this lecture, Daniella Zaidman-Mauer examines how Yiddish texts articulated integrated medical and religious responses to epidemic disease in early

A fourteenth-century Persian text on Chinese medicine describes blood “making rounds” through the body; what this implies for the history

Set against the world of cheap print and wonder literature, this article investigates the case of a Spanish nun who

This conference traces how technical knowledge has been transmitted across human history through texts, images, and hands-on re-creation, with special

This conference explores the creation and dissemination of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern Europe within established and