Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health

 
Lightning Talks: Group Members Sharing Recent Research
 
Featuring short presentations from:
 
- Allison Stielau (UCL) -
"Hans von Gersdorff's Feldtbuch der Wundartzney: Histories of Blood on Paper"
 
- Barbara di Gennaro Splendore (Yale) -
"The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy, and Politics in Early Modern Italy"
 
- Leonie Rau (MPIWG) -
"Craft Recipes In and From the Medieval Arabic-Speaking World"
 
- Shireen Hamza (Northwestern) -
"Health and Waterside Spaces: Stepwells, Riverbanks, Hammams
 
- Jack Hartnell (UEA) -
"How To Grow A Book: Gardens, Communities, Libraries"

 
"Book Proposal - Geometric Medicine: Art, Proof, and Efficacy in the Medieval Islamic World"
Meekyung Macmurdie (Utah)
Commentator: Ahmed Ragab (Hopkins)
 

*NOTE SPECIAL DATE & TIME*
"Translating, Trying and Modifying: Early Modern Ottoman Pharmacopeias"
Duygu Yildirim (University of Tennessee)
Commentator: Paula De Vos (San Diego State University)
 

"The Trouble with Simples: A Professor's Unfinished Pharmacopeia in Enlightenment Venice"
Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
Commentator: Cindy Klestinec (Miami University)

Double Book Launch and Celebration
Claire Burridge (University of Oslo) and Melissa Reynolds (Texas Christian University) will join us for an informal discussion of their new books "Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice, c. 775-900" (Brill) and "Reading Practice. The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (Chicago). 

"Windows to the Surgeon: Eye Diseases, Remedies, and Images in Early Modern German Print and Manuscript"
Alisha Rankin (Tufts)
Response: Allison Stielau (UCL)
 
NB: Hi-res images for this paper can be found at the following link: https://tufts.box.com/s/80051bhn8vnegae1u4dyt4oe0ok01les

Note, we are meeting on May 3rd this month, so as to avoid a clash with the AAHM Meeting
 
"Rethinking “Infirmity” in Crusader Jerusalem: A New History of the Hospital of St. John"
Katharine Park (Harvard)
Reponse: Peter Jones (Cambridge)

"Discussion: Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health...  for Broad Publics"
Jill Burke (Edinburgh)
Kathleen Crowther (Oklahoma)
Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins)
Jack Hartnell (UEA)
 

"The Panther & The Worm: Guido da Vigevano's Medical and Technological Conquest of the Holy Land"
Lauren Rozenberg (UEA/Leverhulme)
Response: Jess Bailey (UCL)

"Translating New World Drugs in Late Renaissance Italy: The Case of Indies Balsam"
Sharon Strocchia (Emory)
Response: Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton)
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A note from Sharon on the text:
 
Dear colleagues,
Thank you for taking the time to read and engage with my work. Some quick remarks to frame the paper: it's a freestanding essay that has been accepted for publication in an edited volume titled Medicine in Early Modern Italy: Between Theory and Practice, ed. Sandra Cavallo and John Henderson (forthcoming from Brepols later this year). There is still time on my end to make revisions, since we're not yet at the proof stage, so any comments or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. More importantly, the paper takes up themes that I'm developing in a book manuscript about the commercialization of medical remedies in late Renaissance Italy (1550-1650). I'd be very grateful for any feedback that would help me think through the issues as well as the presentation of evidence. Thank you!  

"Roundtable: The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans and Amputees in Early Modern Germany (Manchester UP, 2023)"
Heidi Hausse (Auburn)
Pamela O. Long (Independent)
Alisha Rankin (Tufts)
Paolo Savoia (Bologna)

"Anatomy and the Early Académie Royale des Sciences"
Katherine Reinhart (Binghamton)
Response: Antoine Gallay (Geneva)

"Marginal Recipes, Major Insights: Exploring the Manuscript Contexts of Early Medieval Medical Knowledge"
Claire Burridge (Sheffield)
Response: Debby Banham (Cambridge)

"'The Männel is a root, it should be called an Allraune': A Mandrake, Magic, and Money in Seventeenth-Century Saxony"
Tara Nummedal (Brown)
Response: Alisha Rankin (Tufts)
 

*Note Special Time*
"Figuring Racial Difference in Early Nineteenth-Century France"
Stephanie O'Rourke (St Andrews)
Response: Suman Seth (Cornell)
 
As framing for the piece, Stephanie says:
This text is the fourth and final chapter of my current book manuscript. This book argues that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, picturing landscape functioned as the primary means through which European artists grappled with an enormous transformation in how humans relate to the natural world, characterized by the management and extraction of “natural resources” on an unprecedented scale and within a global network. This entailed, among other things, employing novel systems for measuring, analyzing, and manipulating natural phenomena across vast distances. The challenge for artists during this period lay in creating pictorial modes that could be commensurate with such procedures. Multi-national in its scope, this book explores how European landscapes pictured the natural environment in relation to specific extractive industries such as mining and timber harvesting as well as emerging concepts about race, climate, and waste operative within the continent and its colonial networks.

"Who Is a Maker? Artisan Knowledge in Medieval India."
Eric Gurevitch (Vanderbilt)
Response: Tillmann Taape (Herzog August Biliothek)

"Aromatic Medicines and Divine Scents in Women's Medicine"
Wee-Siang Margaret Ng (College of Wooster)
Response: Jack Hartnell (UEA)

"Can Mixtures Be Identified by Touch? The Reception of Galen’s De complexionibus in Italian Renaissance Medicine"
Viktoria von Hoffmann (FNRS / Liège)
Response: Anita Guerrini (Oregon State)
 

“Cutting the Body: Jacopo Berengario da Carpi and the Anatomical Woodcut”
Ariella Minden (Toronto / Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History)
Response: Taylor McCall (Medieval Academy) 

Epistemic Images: A Discussion
With Sietske Fransen (Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History)
Response: Alicia Petersen (Yale)... and all OISH Members