Knowledge, Experiment, and Practical Advice
In this Santorio Lecture, Marsha Wubbels explores eighteenth-century physicians’ efforts to popularise measuring as a health practice.
The Shaping of Psychosomatics in the Latin West
In this Santorio Lecture, Tamar Nadav examines how 12th-century physicians’ notions of embodiment become more intricate and more oriented towards the
The Actualisation of the Ideal Human in the Works of Roger Bacon
In this Santorio Lecture, Meagan Allen examines how Bacon incorporated the centuries-old tradition of the physical resurrection body into his
The Kiln, The Alembic, and the Clockwork
The summer school explores how the representation of the body and its functions changed from antiquity to the early modern period
Measuring Health and the Body
This seminar will present how and why the pre-modern body was measured and explore how new methods of measuring, quantifying,
Extreme Bodies
This joint panel between the University of Vienna and the CSMBR, presents some of these entanglements between weight, norm and
Art and Internal Anatomy
Building on Prof. Kleinbub's research on Michelangelo’s investment in internal anatomical matters, this talk proposes that other artists of his
Dante and the Sciences of the Human
The CSMBR joins the worldwide celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death (1321-2021) with an international online symposium
Sources and Problems in Renaissance Medicine
This lecture explains the rationale behind a new survey of history in the period, which relies on a wide range
“Virtus Formativa” in Albert the Great’s Embryology
Through an interdisciplinary approach, this Santorio Lecture will explore Albert’s doctrine on formative power and its pivotal role in the