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Winston Black Aug 21, 2023

Hi all, looking for help from art history & iconography friends.
Can anyone suggest what the jar in the niche might be in Dürer's "Saint Jerome in His Study" (1514)? It's a round, open jar with a stick in it. Honey? Can't find it mentioned in any iconographic analysis.
Oddly, the stick seems to be glowing with radiant, holy light. Either that or it has many sharp spikes!
For context, I'm studying apothecary jars in Renaissance paintings (mostly Jerome), but I can't identify this jar.

Winston Black Jul 15, 2023

Enjoying my wildlife encounters today: starfish in the harbor and snowshoe hare in my driveway. Which one will take my car?

Winston Black Jul 2, 2023

Soothing sights in my garden: raindrops on lupins.

Winston Black Jul 2, 2023

Hello again Mastodon!

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of "Beyond Cadfael: Medieval Medicine and Medical Medievalism" ed. Lucy Barnhouse and Winston Black (Trivent Publishing, 2023).

It features 11 essays on modern representations and reception of medieval medicine.

https://trivent-publishing.eu/home/160-232-beyond-cadfael.html?adtoken=39e8e7465a0621d2cca128b18c687fd1&ad=products&id_employee=2&preview=1

Beyond Cadfael. Medieval Medicine and Medical Medievalism Cover Paperback

Edited by Lucy C. Barnhouse and Winston Black Publication date: June, 2023 Pages: 330, colour ISBN 978-615-6405-81-4 Paperback, €49.00 ISBN 978-615-6405-80-7 Hardcover, €104.00 eISBN 978-615-6405-82-1 eBook, €104.00 OPEN FOR PRE-ORDERS! You can pre-order you copy by the end of July 2023. To pre-order, please email us at [email protected]. Shipments of the physical copies will start in July 2023. For any unavailable copies on our website, please refer to our distributors: ISD LLC for North and South America and EUROSPAN for Europe and the rest of the world.

Trivent Publishing

Winston Black Jan 18, 2023

Hey gamers and #medievolodons, if you're looking for more #Pentiment content and background, I joined the game director @jesawyer, @Waypoint host @RobZacny and our (yes all 3 of us!) undergrad professor Dr. Ed Kern in a discussion about our historical consulting (discussion starts one hour into this podcast).

https://shows.acast.com/vicegamingsnewpodcast/episodes/episode-532-happy-new-year-heres-a-peasant-uprising

Episode 532 - Happy New Year, Here's a Peasant Uprising | Waypoint Radio

Winston Black Jan 16, 2023

A nice cover story on my and my NLM Fellowship from my institution: https://www.stfx.ca/about/news/Winston-Black

#histmed #medhist #pharmacy #herbalism #medievalhistory #medievodons #manuscripts

Medicine and miracle: StFX faculty member receives prestigious $10,000 DeBakey Fellowship to learn more about medieval medical care

StFX University

Winston Black Dec 25, 2022

Erik Kwakkel Dec 24, 2022

Horrendous story of how a scholar’s work was lifted from his blog and published by another scholar as her own. For context, the blogger, Peter Kidd, is highly respected and has made numerous contributions to manuscropt studies via his blog, which is his main publication platform. Among the worrying elements of this story: that blogs are not real publications, so contents can be used without attribution. It happens more often.

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

"Nobody cares about your blog!"

Winston Black Dec 22, 2022

Matthew L. Reznicek Dec 22, 2022

Henrietta Lacks's hometown will build statue of her to replace Robert E. Lee monument #HistMed
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1144659337/henrietta-lacks-hometown-will-build-statue-of-her-to-replace-robert-e-lee-monume

Henrietta Lacks' hometown will build statue of her to replace Robert E. Lee monument

A statue of the woman, whose cells were taken without her consent and became integral in several major medical breakthroughs, will be built in Roanoke, Va.

NPR

Winston Black Dec 21, 2022

Exciting news: I have just been named a 2023 DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine (NIH) to pursue research and travel for my research project
"Medieval Medicine in Transition: The Manuscript Evidence from Twelfth Century England".

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/NLM_Announces_2023_Michael_E_DeBakey_Fellows_in_the_History_of_Medicine.html

#histmed #medhist #herbalism #manuscript #medievalhistory