Knowledge and practice in the long Renaissance, ca. 14th–17th centuries
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Text and Image in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoEditors: Susanna Berger (University of Southern California) and Daniel Garber (Princeton University)
Publisher: Springer, 2022
This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Literatures of Alchemy in Medieval and Early Modern England in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 6 days agoAuthor: Eoin Bentick (Queen Mary, University of London)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, 2022
The language of alchemy (the art of transmuting metals and manufacturing pharmaceutical medicine) is defined by […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 1 month agoAuthor: David A. Lines (University of Warwick)
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2023
The University of Bologna was among the premier universities in medieval Europe and an international magnet for […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoAuthor: Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University)
Publisher: Chicago University Press, 2022
This book considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoAuthor: Rebecca Whiteley (Birkbeck, University of London)
Publisher: Chicago University Press, 2023
Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant womb, always shown in series, that depict the variety […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th Centuries in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoEditor: Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Publisher: Routledge, 2023
The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies provides a comprehensive survey on s […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish: A Critical Edition in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 2 months agoEditors: Justin Begley (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) and Benjamin Goldberg (University of South Florida)
Publisher: Springer, 2023
This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Defining Nature’s Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoAuthor: Neil Tarrant (University of York)
Publisher: Chicago University Press, 2022
Unlike earlier studies, Defining Nature’s Limits engages the history of both learned and popular magic. Tarrant exp […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World: Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks agoEditors: Lori Jones (Carleton University – University of Ottawa) and Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, 2022
This collection highlights and nuances some of the recent crit […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 4 months agoAuthor: Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
Publisher: Chicago University Press, 2022
The Renaissance is celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves to greatness, but there is a […]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Combining Atomism with Galenic Medicine: The Physiological Theory of Isaac Beeckman (1616-1627) in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine on Humanities Commons 4 months agoAlthough he obtained a medical degree at the University of Caen in 1618, Isaac Beeckman never practised medicine. Instead, he developed an atomistic conception of Galenic physiology by discussing, throughout his notebook, the constituents and functioning of the living body. Interestingly, Beeckman applied his atomistic interpretation to the notion…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoEditors: Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln) & Vera Keller (University of Oregon)
Publisher: Brepols, 2022
This volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Atoms, Corpuscles and Minima in the Renaissance in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoEditors: Christoph Lüthy & Elena Nicoli (Radboud University)
Publisher: Brill, 2022
The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles – atoms, co […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The World of Girolamo Donzellini: A Network of Heterodox Physicians in Sixteenth-Century Venice in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months agoAuthor: Alessandra Celati (University of Verona)
Publisher: Routledge, 2022
Girolamo Donzellini was born in 1513. He was a religious dissenter, a physician, and a bibliophile involved in the Medical […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoAuthor: Clare Griffin (Nazarbayev University)
Publisher: McGill – Queen’s University Press, 2022
Mixing Medicines offers unique insight into how the dramatic reshaping of global trade touched the day […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoEditor: Gabriella Zuccolin (University of Pavia)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2022
Around 1460, Michele Savonarola produced the extraordinary Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara, a gy […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [Digital Exhibit] Natural Interactions in the Book as Art and Making Knowledge in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 6 months agoThis online exhibition at Yale University Library showcases examples of the natural history book as an active work of art shaped by different hands. Drawing primarily from the rich collections of the Medical […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoEditors: Laura Georgescu & Han Thomas Adriaenssen (University of Groningen)
Publisher: Springer, 2022
This book examines the philosophical and scientific achievements of Sir Kenelm Digby, a successful […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 7 months agoAuthor: Phebe Jensen (Utah State University)
Publisher: Routledge, 2022
Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, […]
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Elisabeth Moreau edited the post [New Book] Gabrielle Falloppia, 1522/23-1562: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Anatomist in the group
Renaissance Science and Medicine: on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoAuthor: Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg)
Publisher: Routledge, 2022
Renaissance anatomist Gabrielle Falloppia is best known today for his account of the eponymous fallopian tubes but he made […]
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