Please find below the programme of a conference to be held at the Wellcome
Unit for the History of Medicine, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
If you are interested in attending please contact me and I will e-mail/post
you a copy of the booking form (late booking fee of GBP £ 10.00 applies
after 21 February 2002, last bookings 7 March 2002).
Thank you, Becky
Becky Fitt (Ms)
Administrative Officer
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
UK
Tel: + 44 (0)1603 593878
Fax: + 44 (0)1603 593285
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Website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/wellcome/
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PROGRAMME
'THE RISING DAWN': THE CONTRIBUTION OF ALCHEMY
TO MEDIEVAL MEDICINE AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE
21-22 March 2002
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
University of East Anglia, Norwich
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THURSDAY 21 MARCH 2002
ELIZABETH FRY BUILDING (Rm. 0.06)
9.00 COFFEE
9.15 Introduction: Roger Cooter
Jonathan Hughes, Alchemy and Late Medieval Kingship
10.00-11.30
Session One: Chair: Jonathan Hughes
Michael McVaugh, Teodorico Borgognoni and Thirteenth Century Surgery
Ms E R Truit, A trei poete, sage doctors, qui mout sorent di nigromance:
Necromancy, Natural Philosophy, and Automata in Twelfth and Thirteenth
Century Literature
11.30-12.00 COFFEE
12.00-13.30
Session Two: Chair: Sandy Heslop
Mike Bispham, The Practice of Ad Quadratum and Ad Triangulum Composition in
Art and Architecture
Urzula Szulakowska, Geometry in Late Medieval Alchemy: the Rosarium
Philosophorum and Pseudo-Lullian Alchemy
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-16.00
Session Three: Chair: Stephen Church
Linda Voigts, English Alchemical Interests in the Mid-Fifteenth Century
Peter Grund, 'ffor to make Azure as Albert biddes': Alchemical Writings in
Middle English Attributed to Albertus Magnus
16.00-16.30 TEA
17.30 Coach to Great Hospital, Norwich
18.00-19.15 Tour of the Great Hospital, Norwich with Carole Rawcliffe
19.30 DINNER
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FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2002
ELIZABETH FRY BUILDING (Rm 01.10)
9.15 COFFEE
9.30-11.00
Session Four: Chair: Sarah Salih
Stanton Linden, Alchemical Satire in George Ripley's Compound of Alchemy:
The Chaucerian Legacy
George Keiser, 'As it is in the Picture': Two Traditions and Two Centuries
of English Alchemical Illustration
11.00-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-13.00
Session Five: Chair: Carole Rawcliffe
P M Jones, Medical Practitioners and Alchemically Derived Remedies
Michael K. Jones, Thomas Forestier, 'Henry VII and a treatise on the
Sweating Sickness (1485)'
13.00-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-15.30
Session Six: Chair: Vic Morgan
Stephen Clucas, John Dee and the Afterlife of Medieval Alchemy
Laurence Eldridge, The Place of Alchemy in the Intellectual World of Elias
Ashmole
15.30-15.45 TEA
15.45-17.15
Session Seven: Chair: Colin Davis (to be confirmed)
Mrs Leo Gantenbein, The Ars Hermetis of John of Fulda 1449
Michela Pereira, The State of Alchemical Research
