Hear Tessa Storey discuss the ‘Regimen Sanitatis’, a manuscript published by the famous medieval medical school of Salerno. The preface suggests that its authors intended their medical advice to reach a wide audience. Using a copy of the text held in Wellcome Collection, this talk will explore how vernacular medical knowledge was spread among ‘ordinary people’ in early modern Italy.
Following the presentation from our speaker, there will be an opportunity to discuss her ideas.
We’ll be in the Viewing Room. It’s next to the Library entrance on level 2, which you can reach by taking the lift or the stairs.
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Dr Tessa Storey’s books include ‘Carnal Commerce in Counter-Reformation Rome’, on the social, economic and material culture of prostitution; ‘Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy’ a prize-winning monograph co-authored with Sandra Cavallo; and ‘Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture’, a co-edited volume of essays. Storey is currently an independent scholar and is exploring the circulation of medical knowledge in early modern Italy, with a particular focus on the dissemination of preventive health ideas through cheap, ‘popular’ printed texts.
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