OXFORD SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY

Chair: Rob Iliffe (Oxford)

Mark Thakkar (St Andrews): ‘Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel? Medieval Sermons as a Source for the History of Fermentation’

Carmen Schmechel (FU Berlin): ‘The “Wine Stone”: Tartar as a Cause of Disease in Paracelsus and Joseph Duchesne’

Convened by Jo Hedesan & John Christie (Oxford)