| VivaMente 2024: Applications Open |
Under the new grant, € 5000 euros (as opposed to the previous € 3000) plus the free usage of the outstanding premises of the Centre's facility at the Domus Comeliana (worth an additional 5000) will be awarded to the best proposals for a two-day event to be organised in Pisa between March and May 2024.
The scheme is devised to promote and sustain the best proposals in intellectual history and the history of ideas with adequate economic and logistic support.
VivaMente is broader in scope and time frame than any other CSMBR grant, allowing scholars to freely explore any topic, from ancient to contemporary history of philosophy, science, medicine, and technology.
VivaMente Conferences have a main focus on intellectual history and history of ideas but a multidisciplinary dimension is welcome and strongly encouraged. |
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| Ordinary Fellow University of Cambridge |
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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 (CEST) |
How did Galenism influence education, politics, and professional selection up to the late 17th century? A relevant and clear-cut source is Juan Huarte’s Examen de Ingenios, published in 1575 and soon condemned by the Index and translated into the main European languages during the subsequent century. |
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| Thaumaturgical Practices and Saints' Devotion in Early Modern Sicily
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Webinar: 10 October 2023 - 5 Pm (CEST) |
Early modern Sicily provides a number of useful case studies for reflecting on the relationship between medicine and thaumaturgy. One of the most relevant is the so-called Miracula et benefitia (‘Miracles and Benefits’), i.e. the records of the trial of the miracles of Saint Angelus that took place in Licata, Agrigento, between 1625 and 1627. |
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| Food, Famine, and Social Class |
Galen on Nutrition and Diet in the Roman Empire
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Webinar: 24 October 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
Galen is one of the best sources on ancient nutrition and diet: he has little interest in luxury fashions, he records regular seasonal famines, and is at home in the fields talking to peasants as much as he is in the salons of his wealthy clients. Above all, he has a coherent and powerful theory of nutrition, derived from observation of patients and extensive research into nutritional texts... |
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| The Golden Wine or the Fifth Essence |
John Rupescissa's Medical Alchemy |
Webinar: 9 November 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
This talk focuses on Rupescissa’s medical alchemy and, more generally, on the development of medical alchemy in the Occitan-Catalan area with an emphasis on the analysis of a partial, but significant, critical edition of the Pseudo-Lullian Alchemical Testament which I prepared for my doctoral dissertation. |
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| At the end of an intense four-day event, Prof. Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge) reflects on his experience as keynote speaker of the 2023 Summer School and on the intellectual and social environment he found at CSMBR. Enjoy! |
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| A friendly chat with David Mesquita (University of Lisbon), Santorio Fellow 2023 and participant in the Summer School "Intensity and the Grades of Nature". Interview held in Portuguese, Enjoy! |
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| Tommaso Ghezzani (Normale University of Pisa, University of Geneva), Santorio Fellow 2023 and participant in the Summer School "Intensity and the Grades of Nature" shares his impression of the event. Interview held in Italian, Enjoy!
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CHRONICLES: THE CSMBR JOURNAL |
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| Chronicles is the online journal of the CSMBR Community where you can find the latest news about our fellows’ activities, including book publications, conferences, colloquia, grants, interviews and much more. This week we have interviewed Madeleine Sheahan on her appointment to Santorio Global Fellow, while news about partnerships and collaborations will be available from next week. |
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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.
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The award is is designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science with a focus on Europe, throughout the period 500-1800. | | |
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Uses, Abuses, and Medical Rationale of Opium |
The talk explores how, during the seventeenth century, the confluence of a variety of factors instigated a surge in opium consumption, ultimately culminating in the manifestation of addiction. |
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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 and 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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| 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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Following in the footsteps of works of Frances Yates and Andrea Carlino, PhD candidate Tommaso Ghezzani offers new insights into the Renaissance system of analogies between anatomical theaters and theatres of memory. |
| Medieval Armenian Medicine |
Archaeologist and art historian Dr Viktorya Vasilyan outlines a fascinating historical fresco of medieval Armenian medical culture, unravelling the many parallels between East and West.
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© Arbor: Knowledge That Grows
CSMBR Newsletter Cover image: 'Reading Monkey with a Pair of Glasses' Luca Signorelli (workshop), 1501-1503 Monochrome Fresco from the Albèri Library
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto |
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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
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