Class of 1955 Conference Room, 241 Van Pelt Library Professor Strocchia’s talk examines how the commercialization of medical remedies impacted empirical practices in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italy. Professor Strocchia argues that new forms of experimentation such as testing drugs on human subjects to establish their safety and efficacy – what we would now call clinical […]
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Cherpack Lounge Martina Mampieri is a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow in the Department of History and the Program in Jewish Studies at Penn. She is currently working on a project entitled “BookSHUK: The International Market of Jewish Manuscripts and Books (1900-1948),” which studies history of the global market for Jewish manuscripts and early printed books in […]
Class of 1955 Conference Room, 241 Van Pelt Library At the courts of Frederick II Hohenstaufen and his son Manfred, science and poetry flourished as sources of leisure even amid the most dramatic throes of war. It is no surprise that during their tumultuous reigns, the Hohenstaufen rulers patronized translations, fostered intercultural dialogues, and […]