International Conference
Visualizing Drugs & Dyes Art and Pharmacology in (Early) Medieval Worlds (600–1400)
University of Basel: Forum eikones (Rheinsprung 11), the Pharmacy Museum (Totengässlein 3), and Online
4-6 September 2023
Plants have long shaped the material practice and imagination of pharmacy. Far more than animals or minerals, plants and their products were central to medicine in premodern epistemologies. Over centuries, images and imaginings of vegetal materia medica played a profound role in human conceptions of and interactions with the natural world. In many ways, they continue to do so. Conversely, the therapeutic efficacy of plants and their products impacted broader visual and material cultures and practices. Thus, premodern pharmacological techniques interacted with the practices of image-making, artistic processes, and art.
The international conference wants to foster a dialog between conservators, art historians, medical historians, philologists, anthropologist and literary studies.
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