This webinar explores the different ways in which medicine developed beyond the traditional boundaries of an academic discipline thereby informing approaches and practices as diverse as pedagogy, magic, the professionalisation of surgeons across the German-speaking countries, as well as early modern visualisations of the body and theories of action at a distance. By drawing on a wide range of sources such as treatises by humanists, travel reports, and close reading of anatomical manuscript notes, speakers will uncover the changing outline of early modern medicine across borders and contexts.
Hester Schadee (University of Exeter)
Medicine and the Birth of Humanist Education: New Perspectives on Vergerio’s ‘De Ingenuis Moribus’
Sabine Schlegelmilch (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
Surgeons Become Doctors: Anatomy as a Competitive Field between Physicians and other Medical Professions
Fabrizio Bigotti (CSMBR)
Invisible Connections: Pores, Channels, and Vessels in Early Modern Anatomy
Michael Stolberg (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
Academic Physicians and Popular Magic in the Renaissance
The event is free to attend but registration is required here
