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Poison Trials Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226744858, ISBN: HB: 9780226744711, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 table
In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived – the other died in agony. In...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Panaceia's Daughters Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany
ISBN: HB: 9780226925387, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 15 halftones
"Panaceia's Daughters" provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicin...
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£37,00
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