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Elaine Leong
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Historian interested in the everyday, mom, novice potter and recipe/food enthusiast.
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Interested in war machines? Join the Objects, Images & Spaces of Health WG to discuss Lauren Rozenberg's paper: "Guido da Vigevano's Medical and Technological Conquest of the Holy Land" on FRI March 8th @ 11 EST, w/ Jess Bailey. Paper & zoom link tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx
#histstm #visualculture #histmed
A war machine drawn in ink on a parchment folio, in an open book. There is a red caption written in the top left corner. The folio number is written in the top right corner. The machine is triangular in shape and made of wooden planks. The outside are flanked by pointed blades. Inside the machine, two men, bending backward, are attaching iron rings to the wooden structure. The one on the left holds a tool.
March 4, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Join the Objects, Images and Spaces of Health WG to celebrate the publication of Heidi Hausse's new bk - The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans and Amputees in EM Germany on Jan 12th @ 11 EST! Heidi will be in conversation w/ Pamela Long, Alisha Rankin and Paolo Savoia. Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx
January 8, 2024 at 2:13 PM
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I've been eating peaches for a cause & today is the day! I'm making a 17th century hand scrub w/ Julia Nurse & @historyfinn.bsky.social @ Wellcome Collections in preparation for the EMROC annual transcribathon. Theme this year? Beauty by the books. Details: tinyurl.com/47p8uvfs #histstm #earlymodern
Peach kernels on a white kitchen paper
November 1, 2023 at 9:26 AM
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Recipes Alert! Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces & Images of Health WG on 10th Nov @ 11 EST to discuss Claire Burridge's paper "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights". Debby Banham will kickstart our convo with a comment. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #visualculture #medieval #manuscripts
The image shows a section of f. 60 in the manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, vat. lat. 645. There is an image of Pegasus in the middle of this selection, surrounded by text. While the top and bottom lines of text are part of an abridged, illustrated version of Bede's De signis caeli and describe constellations (in this case, Pegasus), the text immediately surrounding the image are all medical recipes that have been added at a later date.
October 30, 2023 at 9:52 AM
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Mandrakes alert! Tara Nummedal will share her archival finds at the CHSTM Objects, Images and Spaces of Health working group on Fri Oct 13th @ 11 EST. Alisha Rankin start with convo w/ a comment. Please do join us! Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histsci #materialculture #histknow
close-up of an object assembled out of a dried root, small bone, red cloth, a tarnished coin, and paper with an inscription
October 5, 2023 at 2:56 PM