Available in Open Access Funder: European Research Council (ERC) and Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Edited by: Gaia Gubbini, LMU University of Munich De Gruyter, 2020 A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between […]
[New Book] Pseudo-Galenica: The Formation of the Galenic Corpus from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Edited by Caroline Petit, Simon Swain, and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer University of Chicago Press – distributed for University of London Press (Warburg Institute Colloquia) Release date: 15 August 2020 The works […]
[CFP] The Total Library: Aspirations for Complete Knowledge in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The 27th Biennial Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program of Barnard College, Columbia University (Barnard College, New York City). As an online conference, it will take place on December 5, 2020. […]
[CFP] In Sickness and in Health: Pestilence, Disease, and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Art
14th Annual Imago Conference, University of Haifa January 12, 2021. Organizing committee: Gil Fishhof, Mazi Kuzi, Jochai Rosen, Margo Stroumsa-Uzan In light of the global turmoil caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, the […]
[CFP] Writing the Heavens. Celestial Observation in Literature, 800–1800
Conference organized by Aura Heydenreich, Florian Klaeger, Klaus Mecke, Dirk Vanderbeke, Jörn Wilms – ELINAS (Center for Literature and Natural Science) Confirmed speakers: Raz Chen-Morris (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Alexander Honold […]
[CFP] Diagrams in Science, Science in Diagrams, 1300–1700
Online conference organized by the Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions: Sietske Fransen and Christoph Sander (Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History). Confirmed speakers: Kathleen Crowther (University […]
[New Issue] Centaurus: Histories of Epidemics in the Time of COVID‐19
The latest issue of Centaurus, The Official Journal of the European Society for the History of Science is now available online. This issue is currently entirely free access. This spotlight […]
[Digital Resource] Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the […]
[Virtual Exhibit] Scientific Icons: Autobiographies and Portraits of Early Modern Bolognese Naturalists
Scientific Icons (Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna) tells the history of early modern science in Bologna through the autobiographies and the portraits of its main characters. The choice of such […]