Medieval History
The University of Cambridge is hosting an international conference ? Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment ? which will include over 25 papes ranging from the ancient Greeks to the alchemical remedies of the fifteenth-century English royal physician John Argentein. The meeting will be the first of its kind to bring together leading experts on medieval and Renaissance medicine, such as Nancy Siraisi, recipient of a prestigious MacArthur grant at City University of New York, with the world?s foremost alchemy scholars, including William Newman, based at Indiana University and an expert on Isaac Newton?s alchemy.
The meeting will also reveal new findings by junior scholars ? from Gabriele Ferrario, who is literally piecing together the secrets of Hebrew alchemy from fragments of manuscripts in Cambridge University?s Genizah collection, to Tuna Artun, a PhD student at Princeton University, who is tracing alchemy and medicine at the 17th-century Ottoman Court.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
- Scholar Examines Alchemy Mystery From 16th-century England
It involves a printer, the far-reaching power of a monarch, possible censorship, three English alchemists dedicated to uncovering the secret of transmutation and a whole lot of unanswered questions. Earlier this summer, Dr. Teresa Burns, University of...
- Meeting ?reinvented Our Understanding Of Medical Manuscripts? In The High Middle Ages
An international team of medieval scholars from the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, and Canada have made several important discoveries related to medical texts during a meeting held at the National Humanities Center in North...
- University Of Cambridge To Create Digital Library For The 21st Century
Cambridge University Library has announced visionary plans to become a digital library for the world - following a £1.5m lead gift pledged by Dr Leonard Polonsky. Home to more than seven million books and some of the greatest collections in existence,...
- Columbia Seminar On The Renaissance
Posted for the Columbia Seminar on the Renaissance http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/seminars/history/seminar-folder/renaissance.html Spring 2010 Seminars Tues, April 13 Nancy Siraisi, MacArthur Award recipient. "Human Life Span, Length of Life, and...
- Alchemy, Hermeticism, And Islamic And Jewish Mysticism Around The Time Of Chrétien De Troyes
Symposium Call for Papers: http://www.eaglehill.us/publicity_flyers/Chretien_symposium.pdf Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Islamic and Jewish Mysticism Around the Time of Chrétien de Troyes Eagle Hill Foundation, Steuben, Maine, USA Friday, October 15th,...
Medieval History
Conference on ?Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment? taking place at University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is hosting an international conference ? Alchemy and Medicine from Antiquity to the Enlightenment ? which will include over 25 papes ranging from the ancient Greeks to the alchemical remedies of the fifteenth-century English royal physician John Argentein. The meeting will be the first of its kind to bring together leading experts on medieval and Renaissance medicine, such as Nancy Siraisi, recipient of a prestigious MacArthur grant at City University of New York, with the world?s foremost alchemy scholars, including William Newman, based at Indiana University and an expert on Isaac Newton?s alchemy.
The meeting will also reveal new findings by junior scholars ? from Gabriele Ferrario, who is literally piecing together the secrets of Hebrew alchemy from fragments of manuscripts in Cambridge University?s Genizah collection, to Tuna Artun, a PhD student at Princeton University, who is tracing alchemy and medicine at the 17th-century Ottoman Court.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
- Scholar Examines Alchemy Mystery From 16th-century England
It involves a printer, the far-reaching power of a monarch, possible censorship, three English alchemists dedicated to uncovering the secret of transmutation and a whole lot of unanswered questions. Earlier this summer, Dr. Teresa Burns, University of...
- Meeting ?reinvented Our Understanding Of Medical Manuscripts? In The High Middle Ages
An international team of medieval scholars from the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, and Canada have made several important discoveries related to medical texts during a meeting held at the National Humanities Center in North...
- University Of Cambridge To Create Digital Library For The 21st Century
Cambridge University Library has announced visionary plans to become a digital library for the world - following a £1.5m lead gift pledged by Dr Leonard Polonsky. Home to more than seven million books and some of the greatest collections in existence,...
- Columbia Seminar On The Renaissance
Posted for the Columbia Seminar on the Renaissance http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/seminars/history/seminar-folder/renaissance.html Spring 2010 Seminars Tues, April 13 Nancy Siraisi, MacArthur Award recipient. "Human Life Span, Length of Life, and...
- Alchemy, Hermeticism, And Islamic And Jewish Mysticism Around The Time Of Chrétien De Troyes
Symposium Call for Papers: http://www.eaglehill.us/publicity_flyers/Chretien_symposium.pdf Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Islamic and Jewish Mysticism Around the Time of Chrétien de Troyes Eagle Hill Foundation, Steuben, Maine, USA Friday, October 15th,...