The Decline of Magic? Workshop II
Virtual workshop series organized by Jan Machielsen (Cardiff) and William Pooley (Bristol). In the almost fifty years that have passed since the appearance of Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline […]
“The Ideal Body”: Perceptions of Perfection from Early Modernity to the Present
This virtual conference organized by Cambridge Body and Food Histories Group will bring together academics and professionals working within interdisciplinary fields including history, sociology, medicine and theology. It aims to […]
Cause for Complaint: Men’s Sexual Health in Early Modern England
Virtual lecture organized by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Speaker: Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? How […]
Renaissance Eugenics
For the next Generation to Reproduction seminar (University of Cambridge), Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College) will talk about her upcoming book, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the […]
Sea Monsters in Early Modern Science and Society
For next Seminar Series in European History at the Institute of Historical Research, Philippa Hellawell (King’s College London) will give a talk on “Reading bodies, [Re-]Defining Nature: Sea Monsters in […]
Abnormal Generation: Disability, Race, and Gender
For next History of Science, Medicine and Technology Group seminar (University of Edinburgh), Natalie Goodison (Edinburgh) will give a talk entitled “Abnormal generation in Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Disability, race, […]
Visualizing Monsters in the Early Modern Sciences
For its Workshop on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Princeton Humanities Council will host Surekha Davies (Utrecht University) on “Life on the Edge: Imaginative Prototyping and Sea Monsters in Early […]
Salutaria! Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing
The Monash Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host its Sixth Annual Symposium “Salutaria! Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing in Medieval and Early Modern History.” The preservation of health […]
Experiencing the Material Body in Early Modern Europe
Online workshop at the University of Stockholm on the body in early modernity, organized by Karin Sennefelt and Anton Runesson. Wednesday 16 June Sasha Handley (University of Manchester) – Lusty […]
Knowledge about the Placenta in Early Modern Europe
For ISIH – International Society for Intellectual History online workshop (Oxford University), Paige Donaghy (University of Queensland) will give a talk entitled “The history of that obscure viscus: Knowledge about […]