🌳for dear #medieval -ists, #earlymodern -ists, #HISTmed and health folk🌳

The volume "Repairing the Body, Restoring the Soul: Kabbalah, Magic, and Philosophy in Premodern Jewish Healthcare" is out!

Contents: brill.com/view/journal...
Introduction, field assessment, summ: brill.com/view/journal...

Check these highlights from session 3 of the 2025 Spring Colloquium, "Jews and Health: Bodies, Perceptions, Practices." Carla Veira, Magdalena Janosikova, and Lennart Lehmhaus spoke on "Practitioners and their Networks." Ayala Fader responded, and Beth Wenger served as chair. #jewishstudies

Medical complaint of the day goes to John, Lady Cook's servant of Hartwell in Buckinghamshire, who was a patient of Napier's in January 1606: 'fell fro[m] a tree[.] Doth ratle'. #earlymodern #histmed

#Hebrew #ManuscriptStudies #Workshop: Application deadline 21 Feb, details ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app... #codicology #palaeography #arthistory

We have FOUR (!!!!) programmes open for applications: our OSRJL Classical Judeo-Arabic Manuscripts Workshop, OSAJS Visiting Fellowships programme, Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop and Oxford Summer Institute on Modern & Contemporary Judaism! Details/deadlines in this thread.

A 🧵of Galileo's arguments for Heliocentrism,& why he couldn't prove heliocentrism in his time:

1. Tides

Galileo was convinced of Heliocentrism by his tide model. Galileo's Dialogo was in fact a modification and extension of his 1616 Dialogue on the Ebb and Flow of the Tides.

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Welcome new followers (thanks @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social)! To ease you in gently, please enjoy some 16th century surgical instruments. #NoAnaesthesia

Help. Any clever historian can point me to literature on medicines and shapes? The picture below describes "various shapes of plaster according to organs" (ie, the sites of their appl). As you can see, they bear Hebrew and Latin descriptors. Where can I read more? (c1637, Frankfurt) #skystorians