| University of Parma joins the CSMBR |
We are glad to announce that a new partnership has been signed with the University of Parma.
The university will join as a fifth funding partner of the centre, in recognition of the quality of our events and will be contributing proactively to our efforts to sustain the best scholarship worldwide. Prof. Luana Salvarani will be sitting on the Governing Board as a representative of the new partner. We look forward to working closely together with her and all our partners to widen our network and reach new goals. |
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Sudhoffs Archiv: A New Publication Outlet |
Along with a new partner, new strategic links have been sealed as the historic Journal Sudhoffs Archive is now officially part of the CSMBR publication outlets, joining PSMEMM and our blog, Forma Fluens.
Established in 1917 by Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), the founder of the history of medicine as an independent academic discipline, Sudhoffs Archiv is today the world’s oldest continuously published journal of the history of science, devoted primarily to the source-based analysis of the history of the natural sciences, mathematics, and medicine.
The centre and the journal invite submissions from scholars writing on any aspect of the history of medicine. The Journal is committed to a strict historiographical perspective and dedicated to the source-based analysis of the history of the natural sciences, mathematics and medicine. Sources may be primarily textual, object-based or oral transmissions suitable for elucidating questions of the history of science.
Quality is paramount. Every submission undergoes a thorough double-blind peer review. Authors will be updated on the outcome – acceptance, revision suggestions, or rejection – in a timely manner. Typically, the editorial decision is communicated within 3 months.
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Welcome to the CSMBR community! |
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| Delegate for the University of Parma |
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| Sickness and Healing in Byzantium |
From the Imperial Court to the City Hospitals |
Webinar: 5 December 2023 - 5 Pm (CET) |
This lecture aims at providing an overview of the medical practices offered to the citizens of Byzantium, the role of hospitals and their connection with religious and political institutions, as well as the care provided by physicians at the imperial court. |
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| Plastic Forces and Medieval Theories of Generation |
Albert the Great on 'Virtus Formativa' |
Webinar: 19 December 2023 - 5 Pm (CET)
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This lecture explores the role attributed by Albert the Great to the "virtus formativa", a plastic force that in medieval natural philosophy was deemed capable of shaping the embryo so that the lineaments of the offspring would resemble those of the parents. |
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| Poisons, Antidotes and Emergent Properties in the Early Modern Period |
Webinar: 23 January 2024 - 5 Pm (CET) |
Inspired by Galen, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Philoponus, sixteenth-century natural philosophers maintained that complex composites possess causal powers that cannot be reduced to the combination of the powers of their constituents. |
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| STUDIOLO Digital Humanities Lab |
Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab is a new format for the Winter School, designed to meet the needs of those who, both inside and outside of academia, are faced with the digital revolution and want to make the most of it. Proficiency in Digital Humanities does not merely broaden one’s skillset; it fundamentally reshapes research, endowing it with greater depth and impact. As knowledge defies physical boundaries and the Humanities go Digital, students, scholars, and academics are all invited to familiarise themselves with the new media in order to acquire the skills needed to keep up with the progress in their field.
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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 month we have interviewed Dr Viktorya Vasilyan on the signing of a new MoU between the CSMBR and the Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. |
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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 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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The Golden Wine or the Fifth Essence |
Rupescissa’s medical alchemy and the development of medical alchemy in the Occitan-Catalan Middle Ages are topics that remain little studied. Sheds new light on their origin, aims, and social purposes. |
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Early modern Sicily provides a number of useful case studies for reflecting on the relationship between medicine and thaumaturgy, the most important being the records of the canonisation processes. |
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The Right Man in the Right Place |
In this lecture, Luana Salvarani explores the main themes of the "Examen de Ingenios" (Baeza 1575), a seminal book written by the Spanish physician Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588), which shaped the early modern educational system and sparked a debate on how much nature contributes to one's innate inclinations that lasted at least two centuries. |
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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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| The Quantification of Life and Health from the 16th to the 19th century |
Simone Guidi & Joaquim Braga |
| | Albert the Great and the Configuration of the Embryo |
Amalia Cerrito Santorio Award 2022 |
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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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Medical Alchemy in Medieval Catalonia |
Between medieval alchemy and Franciscan spiritualism, this article unearths the intersection of science and religion in pursuit of the Elixir. |
| Thaumaturgical Practices in Early Modern Sicily |
This article examines early modern Sicilian accounts of miracles, detailing the testimonies of people who were healed by invoking the saints' assistance. |
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Snow, Health and Death in Francesco De Medici's Florence |
The article sheds light on the practice of storing winter’s snow and ice for consumption, focusing especially on Renaissance Florence. |
| Cosmological Resonances of Bodily Fluids |
The article explores the life and works of the Portuguese physician Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro, and especially his 'De meteoris microcosmi' (1621). |
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© Arbor: Knowledge That Grows CSMBR Newsletter Cover image: The Astronomer Nicolas Kratzer (detail) Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528 Inv. 1343, Aile Richelieu, Room 809 Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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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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