Description du projet
La guérison par les plantes dans l’Italie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Les livres et les manuscrits sur les propriétés médicinales des plantes étaient très populaires au début de l’histoire moderne de l’Italie, tant parmi les spécialistes que parmi la population en général, qui ont également contribué à leur production. Fournissant des descriptions d’herbes et de remèdes pour diverses maladies, ils ont largement circulé en Europe, voyageant même jusqu’aux Antilles. MAT-MED in Transit examinera les documents d’archives de Materia Medica rédigés en langue vernaculaire aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles en Italie, afin de déterminer comment cette connaissance a été diffusée et comment elle a influencé les pratiques de guérison. En outre, une base de données unique sera créée grâce à une collaboration entre universitaires et chercheurs en Europe et à l’étranger, ce qui permettra d’importer des informations issues de futures recherches.
Objectif
The MAT-MED in Transit project focuses on the circulation of scientific knowledge related to the medicinal virtues of 'simples' (mainly plants) in early modern Italy through archival records and an in-depth study of two vernacular textual genres, herbals and recipe books, produced both in manuscript and printed form between the 16th and the early 17th centuries.
The project will reconstruct the use of plants/substances with the awareness that Italy represents a segment of the more global transit of medical matter between European countries and between Europe and the West and East Indies. MAT-MED in Transit aims to ascertain who were the consumers of the huge production of printed books and manuscripts of vernacular Materia Medica and the women's role in this process of appropriation; why and how, not only professionals but ordinary people, read books and penned manuscripts on local and exotic Materia Medica; how the circulation and use of Materia Medica affected their practices of healing and the underlying theoretical framework.
Through a novel interdisciplinary approach that builds on the applicant’s dual expertise in History of Medicine and Book History, MAT-MED in Transit looks at the past Materia Medica with the ultimate aim of raising current awareness of the value of Nature as a resource for our everyday life.
A close collaboration between the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Brown University, the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) and the new Ca’ Foscari’s Center for Digital Research in Humanities, will allow the creation of innovative digital tools that can be supplemented in the future by other European sources, with the goal of exploring new digital methods for historical research.
Champ scientifique
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Régime de financement
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
30123 Venezia
Italie