Editors: Véronique Boudon-Millot (CNRS) & Françoise Micheau (Panthéon–Sorbonne) Publisher: Les Belles Lettres, 2020 Comment la thériaque, remède censé combattre les empoisonnements et guérir toutes les maladies, dont la formule a […]
[New Book] Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism
Editors: Giouli Korobili & Roberto Lo Presti (Humboldt University of Berlin) in collaboration with Dorothea Keller Publisher: De Gruyter, 2021 This volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity […]
[Digital Resource] MedCat – Corpus Medicorum Catalanorum
MedCat – Corpus Medicorum Catalanorum is a new open access digital resource for the social and cultural history of medicine and health. MedCat is a database that systematizes and classifies […]
[New Book] The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
Author: Jennifer M. Rampling, Princeton University Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, 2020 In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not […]
[New Book] Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain
Author: Paula S. De Vos, San Diego State University Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020 Compound Remedies examines the equipment, books, and remedies of colonial Mexico City’s Herrera pharmacy—natural substances with […]
[CFP] Applied Arts of Alchemy Virtual Symposium
Virtual Symposium, 20–21 May 2021, at Center for Historical Research, Science History Institute The historiography of alchemy has significantly expanded over the last decade, demonstrating that its theoretical and practical […]
[New Book] Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance Italy
Editors: John Henderson, Fredrika Jacobs and Jonathan K. Nelson Publisher: Routledge, 2020 This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to […]
[New Book] Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus
Author: Aileen R. Das, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020 This first full-length study of the Arabic reception of Plato’s Timaeus considers the role of Galen of Pergamum […]
[CFP] Ut pictura medicina? Visual Arts and Medicine
Ut pictura medicina? Visual Arts and Medicine, Figurations of Transition, an inter-university cooperation between the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum University, November 4–6, 2021 Beyond the traditional nexus of […]
[Virtual Exhibit] Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas
Here are the rules of the game: the library is the cosmos, its books are the stars, and we, as their readers, are celestial observers. At a distance, with instruments […]