A Guerrini

Biographic Data

ID27741
NAMEA Guerrini
GIVEN NAMESA
FAMILY NAMEGuerrini
SIGNATUREGUERRINI A
AFFILIATIONSOregon State University
ORCID0000-0003-0181-229X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS54
TOTAL CITATIONS55
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Culinary Texts in Context, 1500–1800: Manuscript Recipe Books in Early Modern Europe

    A GuerriniARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2026

  • Power and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Collecting

    Open AccessA Guerrini, Zeta BooksARTICLEJournal of Early Modern Studies2023

    Both The Ferment of Knowledge and Geoffrey Cantor’s essay review defined the “eighteenth-century problem” in terms of the lack of a totalizing vision. Forty years on, the problem has shifted to the appropriation of eighteenth-century science by both the political left and the right. As historians grapple with the legacies of slavery and colonialism, an emerging theme is material culture and its “entanglements.” The subject of this essay, collecti…

  • The Whiteness of Bones: Sceletopoeia and the Human Body in Early Modern Europe

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2022

    In Western Europe between 1500 and 1700 the human skeleton became an object: a scientific object, a natural object, an artistic object, an artisanal object, independent of its bodily origins yet retaining a troubling moral status. The act of making a skeleton created a scientific object that also had aesthetic value, with qualities of authenticity, accuracy, and whiteness. Beginning with Vesalius, many anatomists included instructions on how to m…

  • Elizabeth A. Williams, Appetite and Its Discontents. Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLESocial History of Medicine2021

    What is appetite? How does it differ from hunger? These questions have occupied scientists and physicians since the time of Hippocrates. In her deeply researched account, Elizabeth Williams explores how appetite became distinguished from hunger, and how the urge to eat became problematised by scientists. Williams focuses on the period between 1750 and 1950, dividing her book into four 50-year segments, with three chapters in each section. Each of…

  • Introduction: Sustainability and the history of scientific environments

    Open AccessA Guerrini, Georgina M MontgomeryARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…2021

  • The Wild Garden: Landscaping southern California in the early twentieth century

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…2021

    The California Wild Garden opened in Exposition Park in Los Angeles in 1916. Planned by the English horticulturist Theodore Payne (1872–1963), it featured hundreds of Californian plants. Payne claimed scientific expertise as well as practical knowledge. In the next decade, he was also instrumental in the foundation of botanic gardens in Santa Barbara and Santa Ana, which focused on native plants and had both scientific and aesthetic aims. Earlier…

  • From Provincial Savant to Parisian Naturalist: The Recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741–1824), edited and introduced by Laurence Brockliss

    A GuerriniARTICLEErudition and the Republic of…2020

  • L’homme parfait: L’anthropologie médicale de Harvey, Riolan, et Perrault (1628-1688), written by Sarah Carvallo, 2017

    A GuerriniARTICLEEarly Science and Medicine2020

  • A Natural History of the Kitchen

    A GuerriniARTICLEOsiris2020Cited by: 1References: 19

    On the evidence of early modern European cookbooks, the wild birds deemed edible around 1600 included cranes, herons, swans, and cormorants. By 1750, none of these were considered palatable. While culinary historians have explored the transition from medieval to modern food marked by François Pierre de La Varenne’s Le cuisinier françois (1651), less attention has been afforded to another major transition in the European diet—that of eating a larg…

  • Retrospectives: Unconventional paths

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLEThe British Journal for the…2019References: 47

    I am the first to admit that my career has not followed a conventional path. But in talking to my colleagues, I am not sure that there is a conventional path to an academic career. This retrospective is both a look at how the profession has changed over the forty years since I began graduate school in the late 1970s, and a reflection on my own trajectory within that profession. Historiographical references reflect my own views and are not meant t…

  • The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History by Juan Pimentel

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLEJournal of History2018

    "The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History by Juan Pimentel." Canadian Journal of History, 53(1), pp. 163–164

  • James Delbourgo. Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    While Hans Sloane (1660–1753) is well known among historians of science—he was president of both the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians in the early eighteenth century—he is less known to the public. Even many historians who have mined the voluminous Sloane manuscripts at the British Library know little about him. The vast number of manuscripts Sloane left behind, not even counting the ones he collected, have made studying him a da…

  • Translation as a Way of Life

    A GuerriniARTICLEIsis2018Cited by: 2References: 5

    Historians who work with materials in languages other than their own inevitably do quite a bit of translation in the course of their research and writing. Much of this consists of words, phrases, or sentences, and much remains unpublished. This essay looks at the author's experiences with this sort of translation as well as with more formal published translation, with a focus on early modern French and Latin

  • Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius

    A GuerriniARTICLEIsis2018

  • Animals and Ecological Science

    A Guerrini, Linda KalofCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of Animal…2017

    Ecological science, which studies the relationships between organisms and their environments, developed from natural history. Aristotle’s teleological chain of being and detailed description modeled natural history until the eighteenth century. Linnaeus and Buffon replaced Aristotelian categories with new criteria for classification, leading the way to Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Darwinian evolution depended on environmental factors and led to …

  • Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform by Carin Berkowitz

    A GuerriniARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2017

    Reviewed by: Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform by Carin Berkowitz Anita Guerrini Carin Berkowitz. Charles Bell and the Anatomy of Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 240 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-28039-4). During the heyday of London’s private anatomy schools, Charles Bell (1774–1842) was one of the most successful teachers, and one of the few surgeons to be knighted, but he is best known for his priority dispute in the 1820…

  • The Material Turn in the History of Life Science

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLELiterature Compass2016Cited by: 3References: 17

    The “material turn” or the history of things has become a prominent focus in the history of life science of the long eighteenth century. The reassessment of eighteenth‐century science since the 1990s has given particular prominence to medicine and the life sciences. Eighteenth‐century anatomists and naturalists studied, collected, imitated, and represented many kinds of natural things, from the human body to trees. This article considers a variet…

  • The Ghastly Kitchen

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLEHistory of Science2016Cited by: 6

    The metaphor of "the ghastly kitchen" of life science research, the places that, said the nineteenth-century physiologist Claude Bernard, stirred "the fetid and throbbing ground of life," is well known. In the seventeenth century, the kitchen, and particularly the scullery, was the site of the slaughter, butchery, and dismemberment by carving of a variety of animals. The tools and techniques employed in these activities overlapped considerably wi…

  • Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display ed. by Piers Mitchell (review)

    A GuerriniARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2013

    Reviewed by: Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display ed. by Piers Mitchell Anita Guerrini Piers Mitchell, ed. Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond: Autopsy, Pathology, and Display. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. viii + 186 pp. Ill. $114.95 (978-1-4094-1886-3). During their heyday in the nineteenth century, anatomical collections played important roles in medical teaching. So…

  • Perrault, Buffon and the natural history of animals

    A GuerriniARTICLENotes and Records the Royal…2012

    In 1733, as part of a programme to publish its early works in a uniform format, the Paris Academy of Sciences reprinted Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Histoire des animaux), last published in 1676, a work of both natural history and mechanistic anatomy. However, unlike the other works in this enterprise, Histoire des animaux was extensively edited and updated. In 1749 Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon published the first v…

  • L'histoire naturelle au XVI e siècle: Introduction, étude et édition critique de La nature et diversité des poissons de Pierre Belon (1555)

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2012

    Philippe Glardon, ed. L'histoire naturelle au XVI e siècle: Introduction, étude et édition critique de La nature et diversité des poissons de Pierre Belon (1555). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 483. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2011. xi +716 pp. $98.82. ISBN: 978–2–600–01438–0. - Volume 65 Issue 1

  • Health, national character and the English diet in 1700

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2011Cited by: 5References: 3

  • Human Remains: Dissections and Its Histories , by Helen MacDonald

    Open AccessA GuerriniARTICLEJournal of History2007

  • Medicine-by-Post. The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature

    A GuerriniARTICLEJournal of the History of…2007

    Journal Article Medicine-by-Post. The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature Get access Wayne Wild. Medicine-by-Post. The Changing Voice of Illness in Eighteenth-Century British Consultation Letters and Literature. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 79. Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2006. v, 286 pp., illus. $78.00. Anita Guerrini, Ph.D. Anita Guerrini, Ph.D. Departmen…

  • Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease (review)

    A GuerriniARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    Reviewed by: Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease Anita Guerrini E. Fuller Torrey and Robert H. Yolken . Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xii + 191 pp. 1 table, 1 fig. $23.95 (0-8135-3571-9). E. Fuller Torrey and Robert H. Yolken, both physicians, offer an excellent introduction to zoonoses, both historical and modern. Most human infectious diseases [End Page 199]…