MLA Commons | Angelica Ferroni | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/angelicaferroni/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Angelica Ferroni is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:16:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 80e56b4a55bbcb9b35095546b8dff6ba Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Early Modern Bodies in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-early-modern-bodies/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:02:22 -0400 Editor: Sarah Toulalan (University of Exeter)

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Early Modern Bodies is a wide-ranging and detailed introduction to a variety of different approaches to and perspectives on bodies […]

]]> 56fc62b3538b6f73288461c3a0aabf85 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-public-health-in-the-premodern-world-dynamic-balances/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:04:15 -0400 Editors: G. Geltner (Monash University), Janna Coomans (Utrecht University) and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (University of London)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2026

The public health movement is commonly […]

]]> 834d5b6ea34cc810abd0fdf4d90a799e Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The State Drug: Theriac, Pharmacy, and Politics in Early Modern Italy in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-state-drug-theriac-pharmacy-and-politics-in-early-modern-italy/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:16:44 -0400 Author: Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore (CREA Padua)

Publisher: Harvard University Press (2025)

From the 1490s, one of the most influential remedies to circulate in Europe was the “wonder drug” theriac. Alt […]

]]> acf869937f8d4e27cea389857cb296d7 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [Special Issue] Early Modern Adaptations and Transformations of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/special-issue-early-modern-adaptations-and-transformations-of-aristotelian-natural-philosophy/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:55:56 -0500 Editors: Simone Guidi (ILIESI, Rome) & Enrico Pasini (ILIESI / University of Turin)

Journal: Aristotelica, vol. 7, 2025 (Rosenberg & Sellier) – Open Access

In the development of early modern science, A […]

]]> 6860e05512c362f853547997a80d5365 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Crafting Medicine: Artisans, Knowledge, and the Common Man in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Books on Surgery and Distillation in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-crafting-medicine-artisans-knowledge-and-the-common-man-in-hieronymus-brunschwigs-books-on-surgery-and-distillation/ Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:46:45 -0500 Author: Tillmann Taape (Charité – Berlin University Medicine)

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Between 1497 and 1512, Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1530), an obscure craftsman from Stra […]

]]> b2bb116d786fb15dfa8123f0fed767c6 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-facing-decay-beauty-aging-and-cosmetics-in-early-modern-europe/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:34:00 -0500 Author: Erin Griffey (University of Auckland)

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2025

The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also sought to […]

]]> 1f65c2efbf2fd4fd88b8d8a8343d7f45 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Exoticizing Consumption: European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740 in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-exoticizing-consumption-european-drug-cultures-1670-1740/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:04:44 -0500 Editors: Emma C. Spary (University of Cambridge) & Justin Rivest (Kenyon College)

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025

Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of […]

]]> 8e2b60062128ccf20d8f43036a52ff8e Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-cradle-of-words-language-and-knowledge-in-the-spanish-empire/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:21:59 -0500 Author: Valeria López Fadul (Wesleyan University)

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026

This book explores how languages served as archives of local knowledge and a crucial resource for both […]

]]> 6c35640512989db961ba37810afbf421 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Technology in Mediterranean and European Lands, 600–1600 in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-technology-in-mediterranean-and-european-lands-600-1600/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:00:04 -0500 Author: Pamela O. Long (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025

This book explores the intricate web of technological advancements that shaped […]

]]> 4cf9db186237fc58ac909a8079bfd149 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-wound-man-the-many-lives-of-a-surgical-image/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:45:06 -0500 Author: Jack Hartnell (National Gallery, London)

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2025

The Wound Man—a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries a […]

]]> 50e47e32c57dc8588bac956311013ed5 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Traveling Anatomist: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-traveling-anatomist-nicolaus-steno-and-the-intersection-of-disciplines-in-early-modern-science/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:31:35 -0500 Author: Nuno Castel-Branco (University of Oxford)

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) was a renowned anatomist in his lifetime. He reformed the anatomical u […]

]]> 07d07a3247ec5ed93ae6e8437555ee3d Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The ‘Kiss’ and the Medicine of Love: A Critical Edition of Francesco Patrizi’s Il Delfino in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-kiss-and-the-medicine-of-love-a-critical-edition-of-francesco-patrizis-il-delfino/ Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:49:35 -0500 Author: Tommaso Ghezzani (Bryn Mawr College)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

This book is centered on the history of medicine by incorporating theories on the disease of love into a philosophical […]

]]> 39b2e401aa3d44aa73b9ec8f7d3322d7 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Alchemical Feminine: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Alchemical Images in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-alchemical-feminine-women-gender-and-sexuality-in-alchemical-images/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:49:52 -0500 Author: M.E. Warlick (University of Denver)

Publisher: Fulgur Press, 2025

Framing the subject’s rich and diverse iconography within chronological, geographical, and thematic terms, the author’s argument […]

]]> fbe68fca5f39f57bbabc5747391cc023 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Investigations of Nature: Europe in a Global World, 1450s-1780s in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-investigations-of-nature-europe-in-a-global-world-1450s-1780s/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:16:07 -0400 Author: Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025

Investigations of Nature takes us on a guided tour through history, when voyages of […]

]]> 491c3d6271c54434a704f610ab04c194 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Anatomical Forms: The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-anatomical-forms-the-science-of-the-body-in-early-modern-womens-poetry/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:48:06 -0400 Author: Whitney Sperrazza (Texas A&M University)

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025

Anatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s poetic work and anatomical study in […]

]]> 2d664faa7aa8c6e9097b7a31ff9415d3 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [Digital Exhibit] Birds in Early Modern Europe in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/digital-exhibit-birds-in-early-modern-europe/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:16:03 -0400 This online exhibition at the Edward Worth Library (Dublin) explores the books specifically about birds and others which include images of birds, for many of his natural histories were also important sources […]

]]> e3313ccdc79873a7f3fa518ae007427a Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Word Made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600-1720 in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-word-made-flesh-lutheran-bodies-1600-1720/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:43:14 -0400 Author: Karin Sennefelt (Stockholm University)

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

From children’s visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious ex […]

]]> ad00284a8e08aa490a1d0fe3edb32f51 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Renaissance Skin in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-renaissance-skin/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:37:08 -0400 Author: Evelyn Welch (University of Bristol)

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2025 – Open Access

The book provides a magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe. People in the R […]

]]> 127bc21145547380d64163cfb1f0f075 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-merchants-of-knowledge-intellectual-exchange-in-the-ottoman-empire-and-renaissance-europe/ Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:32:14 -0400 Author: Robert G. Morrison (Bowdoin College)

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2025

Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As […]

]]> 74be1d492227542fc900b27581f4e7ca Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World: Images, Objects, and Remains in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-materialities-of-disease-across-the-medieval-world-images-objects-and-remains/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:48:11 -0400 Editor: Lori Jones (Carleton University / University of Ottawa)

Publisher: ARC Humanities Press, 2025

This interdisciplinary volume offers new ways to think about how disease and death, and healing and […]

]]> e8eac805c4723b23494af9486d16a152 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Mage’s Images: Heinrich Khunrath in His Oratory and Laboratory in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-mages-images-heinrich-khunrath-in-his-oratory-and-laboratory/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:09:46 -0400 Author: Peter Forshaw (University of Amsterdam)

Publisher: Brill, 2025

This 4-volume work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and works of Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605), “one of the g […]

]]> 387684af66ef1bce6446fa4604201394 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Medical Theory and Practice in Early Modern Italy in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-medical-theory-and-practice-in-early-modern-italy/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:20:09 -0400 Editors: Sandra Cavallo (University of London) & John Henderson (University of London / Cambridge)

Publisher: Brepols, 2025

This volume brings together scholars at the forefront of the latest developments […]

]]> e7b49a87d36bd3f4b7b9ccac196cded7 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-magic-books-a-history-of-enchantment-in-20-medieval-manuscripts/ Tue, 27 May 2025 10:57:33 -0400 Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers (University of Reading)

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2025

Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, […]

]]> 1c22e4a824b539b4f715944ace2c2e33 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Aristotle and New Spain in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-aristotle-and-new-spain/ Mon, 19 May 2025 13:22:01 -0400 Author: Virginia Aspe Armella (Panamerican University)

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

This book is a detailed exploration of the Hispanic intellectual context and the different Aristotelian traditions that […]

]]> 3e5de194f98b3376d1f967e8f57110d6 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-medicine-in-the-medieval-north-atlantic-world-vernacular-texts-and-traditions/ Wed, 14 May 2025 15:07:33 -0400 Editors: Deborah Hayden (National Museums NI) & Sarah Baccianti (Maynooth University)

Publisher: Brepols, 2025 – Open Access

Studies of medical learning in medieval England, Wales, Ireland, and S […]

]]> 50c17e2c5792c253e654a7ffdaa57f03 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-student-notes-from-latin-europe-1400-1750-a-research-companion/ Mon, 05 May 2025 13:40:26 -0400 Editors: Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, Raf Van Rooy (KU Leuven)

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2025 [Open Access]

The first comprehensive guide dedicated solely to research on […]

]]> fbfb620db882f7dd7e353e43bc613f60 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers: A Theological Anthropological Lens to the Sixteenth-Century Astronomical Revolution in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-earthly-adams-and-pious-philosophers-a-theological-anthropological-lens-to-the-sixteenth-century-astronomical-revolution/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:28:07 -0400 Author: Nienke Roelants (KU Leuven)

Publisher: Brill, 2024

Focusing on the works of a select group of Lutheran astronomers in the Wittenberg sphere of influence, Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers […]

]]> 4e0b582b4cfc2abf1130883c5ae8f356 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-epistemic-practices-and-plant-classification-in-premodern-european-botanical-knowledge-an-interdisciplinary-treatment/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:51:14 -0400 Editor: Fabrizio Baldassarri (Harvard University)

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2025

This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that […]

]]> 5f1c06076821adfc9e51ab619d687ca0 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600 in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-forgotten-experts-astrologers-science-and-authority-in-the-ottoman-empire-1450-1600/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:28:24 -0400 Author: A. Tunç Şen (Columbia University)

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2025

Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige ov […]

]]> d65c5de2bf9a8450527cd66938702e96 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements: A Study with Editions of Unpublished Texts in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-pietro-pomponazzi-and-the-renaissance-theory-of-the-elements-a-study-with-editions-of-unpublished-texts/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:15:33 -0400 Author: Luca Burzelli (University of Siegen)

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2024 – Open Access

In medieval and early modern natural philosophy, very few issues were as controversial as the nature o […]

]]> 3fa82dcb0ea9e2d53aeb5275267cd3de Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times: Exploration of a Critical Relationship in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-nature-in-the-middle-ages-and-the-early-modern-times-exploration-of-a-critical-relationship/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:40:13 -0400 Editor: Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2024

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which […]

]]> ddeccac45b0a71be8cb7c32c1507cf3e Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-renaissance-of-mechanics-ancient-science-in-the-age-of-humanism/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:35:56 -0400 Author: Walter Roy Laird (Carleton University, Ottawa)

Publisher: Springer, 2024

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and […]

]]> 0c3ddd3eb7411c54476bbe918446557f Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Writing the Heavens: Celestial Observation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-writing-the-heavens-celestial-observation-in-medieval-and-early-modern-literature/ Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:53:56 -0400 Editors:  Aura Heydenreich (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Florian Klaeger (University of Bayreuth), Klaus Mecke (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Dirk Vanderbeke (University of Jena) and Jörn Wilms (Uni […]

]]> 20cc7b90ca6a46d033e210c4bbb8c8d3 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-ambivalent-pleasures-soft-drugs-and-embodied-anxiety-in-early-modern-europe/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:44:35 -0400 Author: Scott K. Taylor (University of Kentucky)

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2024

Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that […]

]]> 0a337657be9e3e1ea09165af9a650c28 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [Special Issue] Nehemiah Grew and the Making of 'The Anatomy of Plants' (1682) in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/__trashed-3/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:05:27 -0500 Editors: Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Aarhus University) & Pamela Mackenzie (University of British Columbia)

Journal: Centaurus, Volume 65, Issue 4 (Brepols) – Open Access

Nehemiah Grew was an active m […]

]]> de79a0bd275aa39add4d4f898fd0cc64 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-eating-and-being-a-history-of-ideas-about-our-food-and-ourselves/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:11:22 -0500 Author: Steven Shapin (Harvard University)

Publisher: Chicago University Press, 2024

Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, […]

]]> d957b0d0f411b9adf9440a78f8338937 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] The Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-poesy-of-scientia-in-early-modern-england/ Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:28:08 -0500 Editors: Subha Mukherji (University of Cambridge) & Elizabeth L. Swann (Durham University)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

This book explores interconnections between the modes of knowing that we now […]

]]> 73bec5229bdb5db802ce89db7bba5e22 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation: Training the Literate Eye in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-early-modern-print-media-and-the-art-of-observation-training-the-literate-eye/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:29:58 -0500 Author: Stephanie A. Leitch, Florida State University

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. […]

]]> 6d577fa1eba801a1a0c3a80bb2221fc5 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-medical-anthropology-in-the-late-middle-ages-pietro-dabano-on-body-soul-and-the-virtues/ Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:18:53 -0500 Author: 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 […]

]]> f9a1e79bcce61eafc3b85cb66be0bf3b 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-thaddaeus-hagecius-or-hajek-1526-1600-bohemian-polymath-of-the-rudolfine-period/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:02:56 -0500 Editor: 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 […]

]]> eafb8d9e5fbdd1172bdd60a8850c1bbe Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [New Book] Traditions of Analysis and Synthesis in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-traditions-of-analysis-and-synthesis/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:03:45 -0500 Editors: 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 […]

]]> 76128295748bc297a2e55900f65cce87 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-paracelsus-theophrastus-bombast-von-hohenheim-1493-1541-cosmological-and-meteorological-writings/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:25:22 -0400 Editors: 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. […]

]]> 635af121d7328d6f0fdc754ce65271de 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-physiognomy-at-the-crossroad-of-magic-science-and-the-arts/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:13:55 -0400 Editors: 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 […]

]]> f43f62a63835e2b1aef9a4f5732d30d4 Elisabeth Moreau edited the blog post [Digital Exhibit] The Practice of Medicine in Early Modern Europe in the group Renaissance Science and Medicine https://renascimed.hcommons.org/digital-exhibit-the-practice-of-medicine-in-early-modern-europe/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:49:35 -0400 Digital 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 ( […]

]]> 7c5905134b633f543d7a77b824d53676 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-hylomorphism-into-pieces-elements-atoms-and-corpuscles-in-natural-philosophy-and-medicine-1400-1600/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:27:02 -0400 Editors: 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 […]

]]> 339cb3033d2713db7ebb163b85a9089a 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-science-of-naples-making-knowledge-in-italys-pre-eminent-city-1500-1800/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:06:42 -0400 Editors: 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 […]

]]> e8c03e24a6d3dee1e8940a5b880eb18c 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-tracks-on-the-ocean-a-history-of-trailblazing-maps-and-maritime-travel/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:23:38 -0400 Author: 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 […]

]]> a1c806c9dc197c46a50df6289acb5478 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-tracts-of-action-material-visual-and-practical-dimensions-of-early-modern-how-to-books/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:26:18 -0400 Editor: 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 […]

]]> f942834939be1f28e1de39095c0bea68 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-the-age-of-subtlety-nature-and-rhetorical-conceits-in-early-modern-europe/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:24:30 -0400 Author: 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 […]

]]> be59aff3de134d7a68195dfc67375f14 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 https://renascimed.hcommons.org/new-book-reading-practice-the-pursuit-of-natural-knowledge-from-manuscript-to-print/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:02:59 -0400 Author: 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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