Posts Tagged ‘early modern history’
Summer 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…
Read MoreThe early modern reception of Galen’s pharmacology. A new assessment of “Simple Medicines” and “The Powers of Foods”
The conference will focus on the early modern reception of Galenic pharmacology, and especially on works such as De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus and De Alimentorum facultatibus. Conference Description Transmitted through the…
Read MoreConcluding event “Healthscaping Urban Europe”
The ERC project “Healthscaping Urban Europe” will hold a concluding plenary event on 30 September, where three experts will explore the history of premodern public health and especially reflect on possible future…
Read MoreConcluding event “Healthscaping Urban Europe”
Date and time: 30 September 2022, 16:00-17:30Location: University of Amsterdam, University Library, Doelenzaal The ERC project “Healthscaping Urban Europe” will hold a concluding plenary event on 30 September, where three experts will…
Read MoreHealth and work in the Early Modern world, 1500-1750 ca.
On September, 20-21, 2022, the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy, hosts the conference “Health and work in the Early Modern world, 1500-1750 ca.” This conference aims to bring together…
Read MorePurity, pollution, purification and defilement
On June 28-30, 2022, the University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University are organising the conference “Purity, pollution, purification and defilement in the premodern Mediterranean”. Purity and purification were key…
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