Silvia De Renzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1120787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia De Renzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | De Renzi |
| SIGNATURE | DE RENZI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pious Postmortems
A Career in Manuscripts
Following the stellar career of papal physician Giulio Mancini, the article brings into focus learned doctors' uses of, and relationships with, manu- scripts. Manuscripts were the main outcome of their practice - as letters of consultation to patients and colleagues, as consilia of various kinds, including for use in courts of law, and also in the form of key professional tools such as casebooks. Clues found in Mancini's rich paper-trail shed lig…
Michele Savonarola
Chiara Crisciani and Gabriella Zuccolin, eds. Michele Savonarola: Medicina e cultura di corte. Micrologus’ Library 37. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. xxii + 300 pp. index. tbls. €48. ISBN: 978–88–8450–400–5. - Volume 64 Issue 4
The Risks of Childbirth
In seventeenth-century Rome a popular financial scheme made it crucial to establish if pregnancy or childbirth had caused a woman's death. Courts sought medical advice, and this prompted physicians to reconsider the issues. Their disagreements provide historians with evidence from which to reassess received views of early modern doctors' involvement with birthing bodies. Among others, Paolo Zacchia intervened, revealing discord between physicians…
Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy
Medical competence, anatomy and the polity in seventeenth‐century Rome
At the centre of this article are two physicians active in Rome between 1600 and 1630 who combined medical practice with broader involvement in the dynamic cultural, economic and political scene of the centre of the Catholic world. The city's distinctive and very influential social landscape magnified issues of career‐building and allows us to recapture physicians’ different strategies of self‐fashioning at a time of major social and religious re…
Medical Expertise, Bodies, and the Law in Early Modern Courts
Going beyond Enlightenment critiques of ancien régime justice, historians are now exploring its distinctive procedures; courtrooms have become a fundamental site for recapturing early modern political and social dynamics. Historians of science and medicine can benefit too. Serving as expert witnesses was prominent among the activities of medical practitioners; and, especially in Continental Europe, natural and medical knowledge was routinely pres…
The Monster in the Machine
To chart the range of forms and meanings with which monsters were endowed at the time of major changes in natural investigations is Zakiya Hanafi's fascinating project. She argues that the "organic" monsters (p. 80) filling up late Renaissance books and cabinets were replaced in the seventeenth century by increasingly popular automata. As anatomical dissections became mainstream, the source of sacred terror, traditionally stirred by two-headed ba…
Witnesses of the body
Contracting a Cure
The birth and death of wonder
Secrecy, power and knowledge in early modern Italy
Medical Expertise, Bodies, and the Law in Early Modern Courts
Going beyond Enlightenment critiques of ancien régime justice, historians are now exploring its distinctive procedures; courtrooms have become a fundamental site for recapturing early modern political and social dynamics. Historians of science and medicine can benefit too. Serving as expert witnesses was prominent among the activities of medical practitioners; and, especially in Continental Europe, natural and medical knowledge was routinely pres…
Witnesses of the body
Medical competence, anatomy and the polity in seventeenth‐century Rome
At the centre of this article are two physicians active in Rome between 1600 and 1630 who combined medical practice with broader involvement in the dynamic cultural, economic and political scene of the centre of the Catholic world. The city's distinctive and very influential social landscape magnified issues of career‐building and allows us to recapture physicians’ different strategies of self‐fashioning at a time of major social and religious re…
Secrecy, power and knowledge in early modern Italy
Secrecy, power and knowledge in early modern Italy
The birth and death of wonder
Contracting a Cure
The Monster in the Machine
To chart the range of forms and meanings with which monsters were endowed at the time of major changes in natural investigations is Zakiya Hanafi's fascinating project. She argues that the "organic" monsters (p. 80) filling up late Renaissance books and cabinets were replaced in the seventeenth century by increasingly popular automata. As anatomical dissections became mainstream, the source of sacred terror, traditionally stirred by two-headed ba…
Witnesses of the body
Medical competence, anatomy and the polity in seventeenth‐century Rome
At the centre of this article are two physicians active in Rome between 1600 and 1630 who combined medical practice with broader involvement in the dynamic cultural, economic and political scene of the centre of the Catholic world. The city's distinctive and very influential social landscape magnified issues of career‐building and allows us to recapture physicians’ different strategies of self‐fashioning at a time of major social and religious re…
Medical Expertise, Bodies, and the Law in Early Modern Courts
Going beyond Enlightenment critiques of ancien régime justice, historians are now exploring its distinctive procedures; courtrooms have become a fundamental site for recapturing early modern political and social dynamics. Historians of science and medicine can benefit too. Serving as expert witnesses was prominent among the activities of medical practitioners; and, especially in Continental Europe, natural and medical knowledge was routinely pres…
Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy
The Risks of Childbirth
In seventeenth-century Rome a popular financial scheme made it crucial to establish if pregnancy or childbirth had caused a woman's death. Courts sought medical advice, and this prompted physicians to reconsider the issues. Their disagreements provide historians with evidence from which to reassess received views of early modern doctors' involvement with birthing bodies. Among others, Paolo Zacchia intervened, revealing discord between physicians…
A Career in Manuscripts
Following the stellar career of papal physician Giulio Mancini, the article brings into focus learned doctors' uses of, and relationships with, manu- scripts. Manuscripts were the main outcome of their practice - as letters of consultation to patients and colleagues, as consilia of various kinds, including for use in courts of law, and also in the form of key professional tools such as casebooks. Clues found in Mancini's rich paper-trail shed lig…
Michele Savonarola
Chiara Crisciani and Gabriella Zuccolin, eds. Michele Savonarola: Medicina e cultura di corte. Micrologus’ Library 37. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011. xxii + 300 pp. index. tbls. €48. ISBN: 978–88–8450–400–5. - Volume 64 Issue 4
Pious Postmortems
History (7 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · History of Medicine Studies (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)