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Anna Gili
@gi-anna97.bsky.social
I love trail running and cycling uphill—just too afraid of the downhill to go pro, so I decided to study medieval medicine instead.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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When it rains, it pours! More medieval disease history today. @gi-anna97.bsky.social has just brought out her FIRST BOOK! Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature: The Kitāb al-Malakī and Related Texts. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... De Gruyter/Brill are having a sale. #MedievalSky
Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature
Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases. However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly und...
www.degruyterbrill.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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As a little treat for you, here's an #ArabicBible Advent calendar 🧵. Every day I'll post a verse from the Christmas story from one of the oldest Arabic Gospel lectionaries, Sinai ar. 72, dated 897 CE (and a few other texts in between). [2nd attempt, I won't be offended if you point out my nonsense.]
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐘𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐒: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞
David Mesquita

To register for this lecture: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/.../uncertai...

#CSMBR #OnlineLecture #Diagnosis #Semiotics
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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CSMBR-ATLOMY Conference

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE IN HUMAN HISTORY

After an enthusiastic beginning, yesterday, a second day of insightful presentations and discussions awaits our attendees.
#CSMBR #Atlomy #Anatomy #3Dreconstruction
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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S/he explains why it can be necessary to *induce* vomiting sometimes, & that is when a woman is laboring from a dead fetus in her uterus. The plaster described is to be laid on her belly, & then immediately removed once the fetus is expelled. This circumstance is never mentioned by any male authors!
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Reminder
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠
Online Registration: 20 November

Interested in the interaction between Classical Knowledge, Ancient Anatomy and 3D reconstruction? Please don't look any further (but check the programme!)

csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/confe...

#CSMBR #ATLOMY
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Congratulations to Muhammed Omar & Nahyan Fancy (@fancynahyan.bsky.social) for the global press coverage they're getting on their new piece on the "trickster tales" at the heart of Black Death narratives. General bibliography on the whole pandemic here (#OpenAccess): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The Mother of All Pandemics The State of Black Death Research in the Era of Covid-19 - Bibliography 05152020 - migrated 03032021.docx
This is a comprehensive bibliography on the science and history of the 2nd Plague Pandemic, focusing on scholarship of the past 20 years or so. It is regularly updated. An appendix covers the 1st Plag...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
So enthusiastic that I can now see star trek on social media
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM