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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @BarbaraSplendor

PhD, historian of early modern medicine and science, apothecaries, pharmacy, drugs in the Mediterranean and beyond @barbarasplendor.bsky.social

Joined November 2012
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I have moved to the place where butterflies flutter. Will keep this open for a the moment... See you there!
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History of Science in CESEE@hpscesee
19 Nov 2024
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the third SISS Conference of Early Career Scholars in History of Science “Storie di scienza”: Landscapes of Science. Places, Objects, Knowledge, Imaginaries, at the University of Padua (3-5.9.2025). societastoriadellascienza.it…
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I just got this! It is not real-real yet, but going to be soon. hup.harvard.edu/books/978067… #earlymodern #histmed #histsci #theriac #histpharma

The State Drug — Harvard University Press

A revelatory account of the “wonder drug” theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of the...

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Emily Silk@emsilk10
26 Aug 2024
Announcing THE DISCOVERY OF OTTOMAN GREECE by @richardcalis! I couldn't put this book down when I first read it, and I'm thrilled to say that it will be published in January 2025 @Harvard_Press #coverreveal
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Global Recipes in the Early Modern World@GlobalRecipes24
5 May 2024
🎉EVENT PROGRAMME🎉 We are thrilled to release the lineup for our ECR conference on Global Recipes in the Early Modern World (29-30 May, Cambridge/online)! A sincere thank you to all our sponsors for their generous support: @SSHMedicine, @BSHSNews, @SRSRenSoc, @CamHistory! 👇
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Global Recipes in the Early Modern World@GlobalRecipes24
5 May 2024
With @lucyjanehavard, @OlinMoctezuma , @ameliagraceh_, @Leonie_Rau_, @bethanmdavies1, @fairban_c, @SherylWombell, @gianamar97, @FERichardsUK, @BarbaraSplendor and many more! @MaterialCam, @EModCam, @matcultforum, @CambridgeHPS, @EMGSCam, come and join us!
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Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720@MMoR_KCL
8 Apr 2024
New blog alert! Now live on the MMoR website, read @BarbaraSplendor's blog looking at a price list for rowers’ health expenses in sixteenth-century Venice rb.gy/2vfbcn @kingshistory #earlymodern #histmed

A Price List for Rowers’ Health Expenses in Sixteenth-Century Venice — Medicine and the Making of...

In March 1595, the Venetian office overseeing the Republic’s galleys rowers sought guidance from the local College of Physicians. “For order of the most excellent Commander of the Convicts [the...

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Keep Kew Herbarium at Kew@KewKeepers
24 Feb 2024
Feeling grateful for the incredible community support in reaching 18K signatures on the petition to stop the Kew herbarium move. Let's keep fighting for our botanical heritage! 🌼 #SaveKewHerbarium #taxonomy #curation #heritage change.org/p/keep-the-kew-he…
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Internet Archive
@internetarchive
23 Feb 2024
So what can you do? Tell the publishers we want to buy & OWN (not RENT) ebooks we can preserve & lend for the public good👉 bit.ly/3S3rA0D #SellDontSue
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Thomas Piketty
@PikettyWIL
23 Nov 2023
Great news: UN adopted with large majority the AfricanGroup resolution for a global convention to transform the international tax system All BRICS voted yes Too bad that US, FR & other rich countries voted no & prefer to keep discussions on global tax reform in their rich club
ICRICT@icrict
22 Nov 2023
This is the historic moment today when the world decided that a new global tax system is needed, it is possible, and they are going to work for it. At the @UN.
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Duygu Yıldırım
@HistorianDiary
10 Nov 2023
An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt | by Taylor M. Moore journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt | Isis: Vol 114, No 3

AbstractCan emancipatory, decolonial histories of science be extracted from objects collected from—or made visible to history by—the archives of colonialism? To answer this question, this essay...

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Job in the history of sciene at UPenn wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recrui…
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Thank you @FabrizioBaldas6 for putting together this great volume degruyter.com/document/doi/1… Can't wait to hold it in my hands!

Plants in 16th and 17th Century

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the...

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Società Italiana delle Storiche@SISstoriche
14 Jun 2023
IN MORTE DI SILVIO BERLUSCONI Comunicato del Direttivo della Società italiana delle storiche facebook.com/SISstoriche.198…
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Fabrizio Baldassarri@FabrizioBaldas6
15 Jun 2023
Daniel Margocsy on colonial botany and the hortus malabaricus
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Fabrizio Baldassarri@FabrizioBaldas6
10 Jun 2023
Sophia Spielmann "From the field to the page " on circulating botanical knowledge and medicine #scientiae23 @AcadScientiae
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Fabrizio Baldassarri@FabrizioBaldas6
9 Jun 2023
@BarbaraSplendor on what apothecaries disseminated? At #scientiae23 @AcadScientiae
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Very excited for the beginning of the Scientiae Conference in Prague! Amazing programme with a lot to explore and discuss and study #scientiae #scientiaePrague2023 #earlymodernscience
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Mackenzie Cooley
@NewWorldNature1
3 Jun 2023
Early Science and Medicine and the Early Sciences Forum of the History of Science Society are joining together to run a prize competition. Learn more and submit essays by August 1, 2023 here. forms.gle/5bzAJigAaAruSRfQ9
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