Ústav dějin lékařství a cizích jazyků 1. lékařské fakulty UK zve na přednášku Rethinking Early Medieval Medicine: New Discoveries and Concepts, kterou prosloví Prof. James Palmer (University of St. Andrews).
Přednáška se bude konat hybridní formou ve studovně ÚDLCJ (U Nemocnice 4, Praha 2) v úterý 21. října 2025 od 16:30 a online prostřednictvím platformy Zoom:
- https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/94722202001?pwd=NaGaY2pJkLeIHKseCDaVjM0vbFbQKM.1
- Meeting ID: 947 2220 2001
- Passcode: 813304
Anotace: Early medieval medicine is often considered objectively bad because it lacks theoretical sophistication and scientific rigour. While grounds for a defence are limited, the traditional assessment has left much work to be done in terms of understanding how people in the centuries after the Fall of Rome actually understood and used medical knowledge. This lecture reports on the British Academy-funded project The Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine (CEMLM). The international project team have more than doubled the number of catalogued medical manuscripts, allowing for new insights into what was known, how it was conceptualised, and how it was used. A lost chapter in the history of medicine emerges, in which curiosity and pragmatism established strong foundations for the better-known vibrant medical cultures of later
centuries.
