#Thursday Colloquium by Elaine Leong
Set in early modern London, Elaine Leong’s talk explores the making of vernacular and learned natural knowledge, particularly knowledge about health and the body. Through examining reading and writing practices as epistemic processes, she analyzes how knowledge is transformed or “maintained” through pen and paper practices and reconstructs convoluted itineraries of knowledge transfer.
Elaine Leong is a historian of medicine, science and technology and associate professor of History at University College London. While at HIAS Hamburg she is working on her second book project which uses the story of Lazare Rivière’s bestselling
“Praxis medica/The Practice of Physick” to explore the production, transfer, and codification of vernacular medical knowledge in early modern Europe.
Her first publication:
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science and the Household in Early Modern England. Chicago Press, 2018.
This event is addressed to HIAS Fellows and Tandem Partner