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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Early Modern medicine"”.
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Ten Centuries of Celsus’s De Medicina: Practical Histories of Medical Humanism
… how ancient texts spurred the development of medicine at intellectual and practical levels across ten centuries. While considered virtually unknown in the Middle Ages, Celsus’s first-century CE medical textbook has been marginally addressed in the history of Renaissance medicine for its …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… English, Protestants, over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. I make four significant observations. First, I argue that English Protestant philosophical treatments of the imagination were largely continuous with the earlier mediaeval, scholastic tradition, despite advances in …
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
… broader aspects of late medieval religion and medicine. Using a rich array of devotional and medical texts, including prayers, saints’ lives, charms and textual amulets, the thesis relocates and contextualises childbirth therapeutics within late medieval devotion and healing practices. The …
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Visualising, Perceiving, and Interpreting Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
… scents were once perceived, where studies of Early Modern viewing dynamics suggest that artworks were understood to provoke olfactory experiences. The artists’ perception of depicted scents is also considered, where painted ephemeral fumes can be read as a rhetorical device to express the …