International Conference
September 4–6, 2023
University of Basel:Forum eikones (Rheinsprung 11), the Pharmacy Museum (Totengässlein 3)
and online
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Organizers:
Theresa Holler (University of Basel),
Hannah Baader (KHI Florenz/4A_Lab Berlin)
Andrew Griebeler (Princeton University)
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.
Notwithstanding this close, underlying relationship between art and pharmacology in surviving medieval texts on healing and pharmacy produced between the 7th- 14th century, visualizations of medical substances have not yet sufficiently been the focus of art historical studies. Images of plants and their pigments and dyes, invite further investigations into their epistemic status as well as their therapeutic, and mimetic capacities. What forms of knowledge do these images, materials, and substances provide? What audiences do they address? How can they be situated, between the practices and interests of scribes/painters, scholars, nuns and monks, physicians, apothecaries, gardeners, rhizotomes, and also readers – while taking into consideration the changing status of these human actors across society, gender, time, and space? What can such images, materials, and substances tell us about the interconnections between human and vegetal worlds? What role do colors, pigments and dyes, scent or the incorporation of prayers and charms play in the creation of images of healing? Moreover, how does medicinal, pharmacological or toxicological, plant-related knowledge circulate across vast (plant) geographies? The conference wants to connect the representations of simplicia such as ginger, plantain, pennyroyal, saffron, artemisia, liquorice, or strawberry from cities, rural communities, courts, and religious congregations in the Indo-Pacific, the so-called Levant, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Medieval West.
Monday, September 4, 2023
Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
09:00–09:15 Welcome & Introduction
09:15–10:00 The Colour of Plants
Richard Gameson (Durham University)
10:00–10:45 Wið eagena sare ond geswelle: Treating Afflictions of the Sensory
Organs with the Old English Herbarium
William Brockbank (Bern University)
10:45–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 The Enslaved Rose? Visualising Roman Healing Roses and Those
Who Worked with Them
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University)
11:45–12:30 Exploring the Tangled Roots of Glass Furnaces in Medieval Herbals
Danielle Joyner (Lawrence University)
12:30–13:30 Light Lunch at eikones
Universitätsbibliothek, Schönbeinstrasse 18-20, 4056 Basel
14:00–16:00 Site visit with Monika Studer from the Manuscript Department
(for speakers only)
Heilende Ordnung – Heilung in der Unordnung (D III 14)
Kristina Domanski (University of Basel)
Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30–17:15 Metrologie als Schlüssel zum Verständnis mittelalterlicher Rezepte
Francesco Roberg (Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek der Stadt Trier/
Stadtarchiv)
17:15–18:00 The Many Lives of (Sal) Ammoniac in the Medieval Central
Mediterranean
Robin Reich (Seattle University)
18:00–18:30 Minerals as materia medica: Excavating the Visual Tradition
Brigitte Buettner (Smith College, Northampton, Mass.) online
18:30 Apéro Riche at eikones
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Pharmacy Museum Basel University, Totengässlein 3, 4051 Basel
09:15–10:15 Site visit at the Pharmacy Museum with Elias Bloch (for speakers only)
10:15–10:45 Coffee Break
10:45–11:30 From Dioscorides to the Arab World: A Voyage into the Colourants
Used in the Ancient Herbals
Maurizio Aceto (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale)
11:30–12:15 Plants as Dyes in the Medieval Arabic Civilization; Ibn al-Bayțār as a
Case Study
Ayman Yasin Atat (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
12:15–13:00 Mimesis Approach in the Drug Illustrations of the Paris Kitāb
al-Diryāq Based on Walter Benjamin’s Doctrine of the Similar
Farnaz Masoumzadeh (Art University of Isfahan)
13:00–14:00 Light Lunch at the Pharmacy Museum
14:00–14:30 Collecting Nature on Paper? An Early History of Materia Medical
Images in China
Ruiying Gao (Wake Forest University) online
14:30–15:00 Therapeutic Arabic Scrolls: The Use of Saffron on Medieval
Magic-Medicinal Amulets
Lyla Halsted (Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina) online
15:00–15:30 Madder: Arts, Crafts and Medical Literature at the Crossroads
Wanessa Asfora Nadler (Universidade de Coimbra) & Isamara Lara de
Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) online
15:30–16:15 The Narrator Dyes. Analyzing Colour and Cure in Medieval Literature
Isabelle Balmer (University of Basel) & Anina Steinmann (Stiftsarchiv St.Gallen)
16:15–16:45 Coffee Break
16:45–17:30 Imaginario colectivo, tradición iconográfica e inercia de los editores: un
nuevo nombre para la mandrágora en Isidoro de Sevilla (Etym. 17, 9, 30)
Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez (Universidade da Coruña)
17:30–18:00 A Mandrake Crucifix on the Wendish Borderlands of Styria
Gregory Bryda, Barnard College (Columbia University) online
18:00 Conference Dinner for Participants
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Forum eikones, Rheinsprung 11, 4051 Basel
10:00–10:45 Indigenous Apothecary, Folkloric Claims and Musa paradisiaca in
11th-century Precolonial Nigeria
Samuel Umoh Uwem (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
10:45–11:30 Use of Indigenous Arctic Plants as Dyes and Tannins in the
Traditional Northern Fish Skin Processing
Elisa Palomino (Smithsonian Institution Arctic Studies Center)
11:30–11:45 Coffee Break
11:45–12:30 Woad in Medieval Spain: Exploring the Multifaceted Role of a Prized
Colorant, Curative, Protective, and Decorative Material
Maite Álvarez and Cathy Carpenter (J. Paul Getty Museum)
12:30–13:30 Light Lunch at eikones
13:30–14:15 Closing Lecture:
Pigments and Dyes, Vision and Healing: Finding materia medica in
Manuscript Illumination
Nancy K. Turner (J. Paul Getty Museum)
14:15–14:45 Round Table Discussion
After the conference, there will be the opportunity to see the Bauhin Herbarium
together with Juriaan de Vos, Senior scientist & Curator of the Herbaria Basel and
Botanical Garden at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Schönbeinstrasse 6.
(15.30–16.30, max. 20 people, by registration only: theresa.holler@unibas.ch)
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