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.
Enjoying my wildlife encounters today: starfish in the harbor and snowshoe hare in my driveway. Which one will take my car?
Soothing sights in my garden: raindrops on lupins.
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.
I'm having a blast putting the finishing touches on my history seminar for next semester at StFX: "Drugs and Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Laboratory". In many ways it sums up my last 15 years of research, and the work of many friends, mentors, and academic heroes. I'll be exploring the definition and use of "drugs" ("medicamenta" in Latin, "pharmaka" in Greek) in Western culture from Hippocrates up to colonial Atlantic medicine.
#histmed #medhist #pharmacy #herbalism #medicalhistory
A tough time for me, emotionally and in terms of personal history:
Nov 28 was my dad's bday (Wallace Byron Black, 1918-96) & Dec 2 my mother's (Jean Blashfield Black, 1939-2014).
Miss them both terribly, both gone too soon, both an inspiration to me as parent, writer, teacher. As they were both publishers and authors, and mom worked for Dungeons & Dragons, it's hardly a surprise I'm a medievalist and author.
Delighted to see that the Pentiment memes have already begun.
