'The science of the animated body: Pliny the Elder in women's medical knowledge'. XXXIV Autumn Conference Cycle

Good to know

Organised by

Museo de San Isidro. Los Orígenes de Madrid

Speaker

Francisco Javier Bran García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Introduces

Óscar Martínez García (President of the board of the Madrid Delegation of SEEC)

Cycle

XXXIV Autumn Conference Cycle

What's it about

The conference explores the tradition of knowledge about the body and health in whose transmission and systematization Pliny the Elder occupies a prominent place, touring works by medieval and Renaissance authors to explore the transformations of that knowledge and the different conceptions of the body and its links with the soul and passions.

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