Posts Tagged ‘early modern history’
Female Seeds, Powers, and Bodies: Albert the Great and the Vegetal Sexuality by Amalia Cerrito
The 13th-century Dominican master Albert the Great extensively discusses vegetal sexuality. While animals reproduce through the mating of female and male individuals, plants lack a sexual distinction, reproducing through seeds…
Read MoreCesalpino and Aristotelian Science. The Transformation of Medical Botany in the 16th Century by Quentin Hiernaux & Corentin Tresnie
In 1583 the Italian botanist and physician Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603) published De Plantis Libri XVI, considered to be the first treatise where botany is treated independently from medicine. In so…
Read MoreHospital material culture in the Middle and Early Modern Ages: concepts and meanings
The everyday life in a hospital has always been related to different objects and practices that make up the material expression of established human relationships and the very functioning of…
Read MoreMarieke Hendriksen’s project PRESERVARE receives ERC funding
HHH member Marieke Hendriksen has received a Research Consolidator grant by the European Research Council for her project PRESERVARE: Large-scale conservation of perishable foodstuffs in the Low Countries, 1600-1800. The project…
Read MoreHHH column: In touch with body and mind by Miente Pietersma
The HHH column is a monthly blog in which History, Health & Healing members share their thoughts on research, current affairs, or anything to do with medical history. Each edition…
Read MoreSummer school: Intensity and the Grades of Nature Heat, Colour, and Sound in the Ordering of Pre-Modern Cosmos: 1200-1600
Held in the stunning premises and terrace of the Domus Comeliana, this summer school will explore how heat, colour, and sound have been used, conceptualised and graded in the pre-modern…
Read MoreFertility, Medicine and the Body. Theory and Practice across the Premodern World
Organised by Catherine Rider Sarah Toulalan Keynote Speakers Carmen Caballero-Navas Regina Toepfer Tracey Loughran This Vivamente Conference addresses a broad spectrum of issues to do with fertility (and infertility), with…
Read MoreSweat it Out! Insensible perspiration in the Eighteenth Century
Lecture by Ruben Verwaal This paper argues how perspiration could undergo a drastic reconceptualisation in eighteenth-century medicine. Thanks to Santorio Santori’s famous studies with the weighing chair, the ancient notion…
Read MoreThe System of Lazzaretti Reconsidered. The Materiality of Quarantine in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Marina Inì This paper focuses on the system of quarantine stations in the early modern Mediterranean. Quarantine and quarantine centres (also called lazzaretti in Italian vernacular) were considered essential to…
Read MoreFrom the body politic to political bodies: power and disease in the early modern period
The Huizinga Institute will host a hybrid workshop on January 17, 2023 (10-18h), open to all PhD and RMA students. Deadline for presentation proposals: 1 December 2022 Deadline for participation without…
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