Editors: Maria Fernanda Ferrini & Guido Giglioni Publisher: EUM Edizioni, 2020 Lo stretto legame tra l’uomo e la vegetazione si è espresso nel corso del tempo e nelle diverse civiltà […]
[New Book] Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book
Author: Ian Maclean (University of Oxford / St Andrews) Publisher: Brill, 2021 In Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book, Ian Maclean investigates intellectual life through the prism […]
[Digital Resource] André Vésale, livres III et IV de la Fabrique du corps humain (1543)
Après les Pièces liminaires, le Livre I, et le Livre VII, Jacqueline Vons et Stéphane Velut viennent d’achever l’édition, la transcription et la traduction commentée des livres III et IV de La Fabrique […]
[New Book] The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
Author: Alisha Rankin (Tufts University) Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2021 In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After […]
[New Book] The Erotics of Materialism: Lucretius and Early Modern Poetics
Author: Jessie Hock (Vanderbilt University) Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020 In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern […]
[New Book] Healers in the Making: Students, Physicians, and Medical Education in Medieval Bologna (1250-1550)
Author: Kira Robison (University of Tennessee) Publisher: Brill, 2020 Healers in the Making investigates medical instruction at the University of Bologna using the lens of practical medicine, focusing on both anatomical […]
[New Book] Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies
Editors: Inger Leemans (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) & Anne Goldgar (University of Southern California) Publisher: Routledge, 2020 Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early […]
[New Issue] Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Science
The latest issue of BJHS Themes (Volume 5, 2020) is now available online in Open Access. Special issue: Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Science. […]
[New Book] La Thériaque : histoire d’un remède millénaire
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 […]