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To be launched later this year, the prize is designed to support outstanding scholarship in the history of ideas.
It will promote the best doctoral dissertations in the history of medicine, science and technology with a focus on Europe in the period 500-1800. The prize is open to doctoral candidates and early career researchers of all nationalities who are within six years of their viva.
An indicative list of the fields of study eligible for the Santorio Prize can be found in the Publications section. |
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The 2023 Summer School has been a true interdisciplinary event, bringing together scholars and students from around the globe to talk about intensity and its manifold implications. Below some key moments. |
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| From Dangerous Drug to Miraculous Medicine |
Uses, Abuses, and Medical Rationale of Opium in the Early Modern Period |
Webinar: 12 September 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
Opium was known since antiquity for its narcotic and anodyne action, and gained an important place in the European pharmacopoeias since the time of Hippocrates. In this talk, Edoardo Pierini explores how, during the seventeenth century, the confluence of these factors instigated a surge in opium consumption, ultimately culminating in the manifestation of addiction. |
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| The Right Man in the Right Place |
Education, Pre-Eugenics and the Brain in Huarte's «Examen de Ingenios» |
Webinar: 26 September 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
Huarte's thought was not without consequences in the reality of education. His theory was adopted, not without some revision, by the early Jesuits through Possevino's Coltura degli Ingegni, and temperamental assessments were long carried out in Jesuit colleges, influencing the education of the Catholic ruling classes and contributing to the fortunes of a long-lasting strain of Galenic thought. |
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| Thaumaturgical Practices and Saints' Devotion in Early Modern Sicily |
Webinar: 10 October 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
In this talk, Marco Papasidero focuses specifically on the thaumaturgical remedies used by Sicilian devotees to cure their illnesses with the help of saints’ relics or the supposedly miraculous water that gushed from the spot where St Angelus was martyred in 1220. |
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| Food, Famine, and Social Class |
Galen on Nutrition and Diet in the Roman Empire |
Webinar: 24 October 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
Galen is one of the best sources on ancient nutrition and diet: he has a strong interest in the demands of heavy labour on the body, in the effects of poor diet, especially as eaten by ordinary people, and in locally produced food. Above all, he has a coherent and powerful theory of nutrition, derived from observation of patients and extensive research into nutritional texts over the previous six centuries. |
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Under this scheme € 5,000 plus the free usage of the Domus Comeliana (worth an additional €2,500 per day) will be awarded to the best proposals for a max. 2-day event to be held in Pisa. |
The award is open to PhD students and early career scholars of all nationalities within six years from their viva. | | |
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Delaying Death. Medical Alchemy in Roger Bacon's Works |
This talk examines Bacon’s alchemical theories and explains how he believed that the key to extending life lay not in the curricula as taught in the medical faculties of the universities, but in the study of alchemy. |
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Aristotle's Principles of Knowledge & Hellenistic Epistemologies |
In this lecture, Prof Harari explains this difference between Aristotle's account of the principles of demonstration and that of his commentators. |
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Th System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered |
Marina Inì explores the system of quarantine stations in the early modern Mediterranean and analyses the relevance of the materiality of quarantined goods, the regulations and the architecture of the lazzaretti to medical preventative practices. |
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| Albert the Great and the Configuration of the Embryo |
Amalia Cerrito
Santorio Award 2022 |
| | The Quantification of Life and Health from the 16th to the 19th century |
Simone Guidi & Joaquim Braga |
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| Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human, 1220-1292 |
Meagan Allen Santorio Award 2022 |
| | The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish |
Justin Begley & Benjamin Goldberg |
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FORMA FLUENS: Histories of the Microcosm |
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Maimonides and the Perfect Physician |
Maimonides upholds the idea that medical knowledge is a cumulative and progressive process, wherein commitment to and gratitude for those who have contributed to it in the past motivate us to engage with their texts and to overcome their aporias. |
| Surgical Thread in Early Modern Europe |
In early modern Europe, while surgical techniques benefited from anatomical advancements and bedside apprenticeship, learned physicians still relied on ancient sources to learn how to perform complicated surgery, but also to suture wounds. |
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© Arbor: Knowledge That Grows
CSMBR Newsletter Cover image: Ibn Butlan, 'Tacuinum sanitatis', c. 1390, Codex Vindobonensis Series Nova 2644, f. 5v Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna |
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Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR)
Domvs Comeliana, Via Pietro Maffi 48 56126 Pisa, Italy info@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org |
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