AlchemEast Workshop led by Gerasimos Merianos (National Hellenic Research Foundation – Institute for Historical Research, Athens).
November 30, 2018 @ 10:30 AM, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna
Music and Alchemy
AlchemEast International Workshop organized by Marco Ercoles and Matteo Martelli.
Papers:
- Stefan Hagel, Reconstructing Ancient Greek Music?
- Gerasimos Merianos, The Byzantine Treatise on Music and Alchemy: A Contribution to Alchemical Methodology
November 29, 2018 @ 3:00-6:00 PM, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna
Hippocrates the Alchemist
Paper by Matteo Martelli delivered at the XVI. Colloquium Hippocraticum (Colloque hippocratique) “Hippocrates and the Others”.
October 15-27, 2018, Accademia dei Lincei / École française, Rome
Le piante medicinali a Bisanzio: usi e teoria
AlchemEast Lecture delivered by Alain Touwaide (Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions – The Huntington).
Abstract. Dioscoride (I sec. d.C.), autore del famoso De materia medica, è tradizionalmente considerato come l’autorità indiscussa in materia di piante medicinali. Nella storiografia tradizionale, sta alla pari di Galeno (129-dopo [?] 216 d.C.), che ha formulato un sistema teorico di universale applicazione per spiegare le azioni terapeutiche delle piante e altre sostanze naturali utilizzate come farmaci. Un rinnovato esame dei manoscritti e dei loro testi, in congiunzione con un censimento sistematico dei manoscritti greci di medicina, porta a rivedere questa narrativa. Non solo rivela che l’opera in materia di Galeno non fu cosi prevalente come quella di Dioscoride, ma porta anche a rinnovare l’interpretazione di manoscritti del testo di Dioscoride che sembravano finora ben conosciuti. Questa conferenza presenterà aspetti della tradizione greca della materia medica a Bisanzio, caratterizzata da una tensione irrisolta fra teoria e pratica.
October 9, 2018, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna
Making Sense of the Alchemical Terminology: Two Syriac Dictionaries on Alchemy
Paper delivered by Matteo Martelli at the Gotha Manuscripts Workshop Alchemy in the Islamicate World.
September 28-29, 2018, Gotha Research Library
Two Joint Workshops on the History of Alchemy
Workshop “Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry” (Ambix Series)
July 10-11, 2018, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna (Sala Rossa)
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication
July 12, 2018, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna (Sala Rossa)
P.Leid. y P.Holm.: dos manuales de alquimia a examen
Paper delivered by Miriam Blanco at the Spanish VII National Conference of Papyrology.
June 28-29, 2018, Universitad de Alicante
Goodfeathers: The Amazing Pigeons in the Arabic Animal Lore
Paper delivered by Lucia Raggetti at the conference The World of the Physiologus – Animal Stories and Representations in Oriental Manuscripts.
June 28-19, 2018, University of Hamburg
Fragments of Greek Alchemy in the Arabo-Latin Tradition
Lecture delivered by Matteo Martelli in the framework of the ERC project Nova Scientia. Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latin (Innsbruck; PI Martin Konejak)
June 19, 2018 @ 6 PM, University of Innsbruck
Selecting and Organizing Recipes in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Compendia of Medicine and Alchemy
Paper delivered by Matteo Martelli at the International Conference Learning by the Book: Manuals and Handbooks in the History of Knowledge.
June 6-10, 2018, Princeton University
Preconference blog series