We are delighted to announce the launch of our new blog. Please click on the links on the right to see the latest posts.
Coming soon!
- Lavinia Gambini, University of Cambridge – Migrating Materia Medica and Foreign Street Vendors in early modern Italy
Call for contributions
The Migrating Materia Medica project is about how natural materials, objects and texts travel around the globe for use in medical and healing practices, as part of informal kinship, community, religious or scholarly networks and formal colonial, commercial and trade relations. It brings together work on material culture from a multidisiplinary perspective with broad chronological scope and global reach. These materia medica may be translated, appropriated or re-invented in new contexts.
We welcome contributions from all disciplines on the theme of Migrating Materia Medica. Topics might include (but are not limited to) the following materials which have travelled or currently travel from their place of origin:
- Natural materials – plants, minerals, animals.
- Objects – amulets, medical equipment, storage vessels
- Texts – manuscripts, letters, diaries, catalogues, lapidaries, herbals.
- Transporters of medical materials – family networks, itinerant sellers, merchants, pharmaceutical companies
- Images – medical illustrations, photographs, drawings
Please send a brief pitch (one paragraph) and short bio to Fer5@kent.ac.uk.