Knowledge and practice in the long Renaissance, ca. 14th–17th centuries
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Medical Anthropology in the Late Middle Ages: Pietro d’Abano on Body, Soul, and the Virtues in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 17 hours, 30 minutes agoAuthor: Matthew Klemm (Ithaca College, New York)
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2025
This book considers the introduction of materialist and physiological reasoning into late medieval discourse on the soul in the […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Thaddaeus Hagecius, or Hájek, 1526-1600: Bohemian Polymath of the Rudolfine Period in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 1 week agoEditor: Martin Zemla (Palacky University, Olomouc)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2025
Tadeas Hajek of Hajek (1526–1600), Latinized as Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hagek/Hayek, was a key figure in e […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days agoEditors: William R. Newman & Jutta Schickore (Indiana University Bloomington)
Publisher: Springer, 2025 – Available in Open Access
This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and sy […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, 1493–1541): Cosmological and Meteorological Writings in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoEditors: Andrew Weeks (Illinois State University) & Didier Kahn (Sorbonne University)
Publisher: Brill, 2024
Paracelsus (1493-1541) stands at a crossroads associated with the Renaissance and Reformation. […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Physiognomy at the Crossroad of Magic, Science, and the Arts in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoEditors: Massimo Ciavolella, Megan Tomlinson (UCLA), and Valeria Finucci (Duke University)
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2024
The volume examines how the study of facial features or expressions as indicative of […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [Digital Exhibit] The Practice of Medicine in Early Modern Europe in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoDigital exhibit on early modern medicine at the Edward Worth Library (Dublin)
The Edward Worth Library is a rare books collection, bequeathed to Dr Steevens’ Hospital (Dublin) by Dr Edward Worth ( […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Hylomorphism into Pieces: Elements, Atoms, and Corpuscles in Natural Philosophy and Medicine, 1400–1600 in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 4 months agoEditors: Nicola Polloni (University of Messina) & Sylvain Roudaut (KU Leuven)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Science of Naples: Making Knowledge in Italy’s Pre-Eminent City, 1500-1800 in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoEditors: Lorenza Gianfrancesco (University of Chichester) & Neil Tarrant (University of Leeds)
Publisher: UCL Press, 2024
Long neglected in the history of Renaissance and early modern Europe, in recent […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoAuthor: Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2024
Tracks on the Ocean is a sweeping history of how we have understood routes of travel over the ocean and how we […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Tracts of Action: Material, Visual, and Practical Dimensions of Early Modern How-to Books in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoEditor: Stefan Laube (Humboldt University Berlin)
Publisher: Brill, 2024
This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do I dye textiles? What […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoAuthor: Javier Patiño Loira (UCLA)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2024
A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoAuthor: Melissa Reynolds (Texas Christian University)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2024
Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350–1600 in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 6 months agoEditors: Carrie Griffin (University of Limerick) & Hannah Ryley (Balliol College)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2024
Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Medieval Perceptions of Magic, Science, and the Natural World in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 6 months agoEditors: Carolina Escobar-Vargas (National University of Colombia) and Anne Lawrence-Mathers (University of Reading)
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press, 2024
This volume presents new research in medieval […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [Digital Exhibit] Visualizing Science in the Rare Book Collections of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoProject: Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions
Curation: Sietske Fransen, Leendert van der Miesen, Ariella Minden
Science and art were two intertwined knowledge fields in t […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [Special Issue] Aristotle’s De sensu in the Latin Tradition, 1250-1650 in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoJournal: Micrologus 31 (2023)
Editors: Mattia Mantovani, Roberto Zambiasi and Gabriela Zuccolin
Contents
M. Mantovani – R. Zambiasi – G. Zuccolin, Introduction
G. Galle, The Order of the Parva natu […]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoIn the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Curiosity to See and Behold in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 8 months agoAuthor: Whitney Dirks (Gustavus Adolphus College)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2024
In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850 in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoAuthor: Martin Korenjak (University of Innsbruck)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2023
This book provides the first overview of the vast natural scientific literature written and published in Latin in […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The Alchemical Laboratory in Visual and Written Sources in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoAuthors: Ivo Purš (Czech Academy of Sciences) & Vladimír Karpenko (Charles University)
Publisher: Academia, 2024
Alchemy was an experimental laboratory activity that involved numerous disciplines. It w […]
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