The Promise of an Alchemical Panacea: Francis Anthony and his English Potable Gold
For next SHAC seminar, Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford University) will give a talk entitled “The Promise of an Alchemical Panacea: Francis Anthony (1550-1623) and his English Potable Gold”. Thursday 21 January […]
Epidemics and Infectious Disease
For the next Dissertation Inspiration Seminar (Wellcome Collection), the session will use a variety of materials in the collection to explore how infectious diseases have been understood across different time […]
Unlocking the Medieval Medicine Cabinet
For next BSHP Meeting (British Society for the History of Pharmacy), Freya Harrison (University of Warwick) will give a talk entitled “Unlocking the Medieval Medicine Cabinet.” Monday 22 February 2021, […]
Poison Trials in Renaissance Science
For next UC Davis Early Science Workshop, Alisha Rankin (Tufts University) will talk about her new book, The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance […]
Culinary Knowledge in Ficino’s Medical Recipes
For the online Symposium on Culinary Recipe from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries (University of Tours), Wanessa Asfora Nadler will give a talk entitled “The role of culinary knowledge […]
Plants and Animal Drugs in Early Modern Medicine
For next Plants in Early Modern Knowledge seminar (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Iolanda Ventura (University of Bologna) will give a talk on “Plants and Animal Drugs in Early Modern […]
Intoxicating Spaces: Global and Comparative Perspectives
A free online conference organised by the HERA research project “Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850,” to be held live via Zoom. Monday […]
Organizing and Disorganizing Knowledge
The Durham History of the Book Conference provides an online forum for scholars working on premodern book cultures from across the globe. Among the presentations: Wednesday 8 September Emma Spary […]
Vernacular Medicine and ‘Agents of Knowledge’ in London
For the History of Knowledge Seminar Series at Lund University, Elaine Leong (UCL) will give an online talk entitled “Vernacular Medicine and ‘Agents of Knowledge’ in Late Seventeenth-Century London.” Wednesday […]
Cross-Cultural Conversations on Poisons
Online book launch of Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practice (Heidelberg UP, 2021) by Barbara Gerke (University of Vienna), in conversation with Yan Liu (SUNY […]