<p>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</p>From the mid-sixteenth century, Italian Protomedico tribunals, Colleges of Physicians or Health Offices (jurisdiction varied from state to state) required 'charlatans' to submit their wares for inspection and, upon approval, pay a licence fee in order set up a stage from which to perform and sell them. As far as the medical magistracies were concerned, charlatans – or quacks, empirics, mountebanks, itinerant pedlars, whatever we wish to call them – had a definable identity. They constituted a specific trade or occupation. In this context, the Italian term <i>ciarlatano</i> lost some of its bite, becoming less a term of abuse and more a generic, bureaucratic label,...
This paper provides new material that sheds light on the theme of chiromancy during the Renaissance....
This article examines the role of street performers such as ballad singers and charlatans in the pub...
In 1621 the vice-protomedico of the Papal States was arrested while inspecting an apothecary's shop ...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.From the mid-sixteenth centur...
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
Much despised and satirised, but rarely understood, the figure of the wandering, theatrical, remedy-...
The history of medicine during the enlightenment is full of paradoxes, and nowhere is this more evid...
“I am a charlatan, ladies and gentlemen; indeed, I am nothing else than a charlatan. But what I do, ...
Early modern charlatan representations, and their origins on the medieval religious stage With re...
This essay will present a documented Italian history of secrets devised in the late seventeenth cent...
This chapter revisits the thoughts, words and deeds of an early-seventeenth century Italian charlata...
Rather than present a conventional medical history, the book focuses on the medical pluralism presen...
This paper provides new material that sheds light on the theme of chiromancy during the Renaissance....
This article examines the role of street performers such as ballad singers and charlatans in the pub...
In 1621 the vice-protomedico of the Papal States was arrested while inspecting an apothecary's shop ...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.From the mid-sixteenth centur...
From the mid-sixteenth century onwards, the Italian Protomedicato tribunals, Colleges of Physicians,...
Much despised and satirised, but rarely understood, the figure of the wandering, theatrical, remedy-...
The history of medicine during the enlightenment is full of paradoxes, and nowhere is this more evid...
“I am a charlatan, ladies and gentlemen; indeed, I am nothing else than a charlatan. But what I do, ...
Early modern charlatan representations, and their origins on the medieval religious stage With re...
This essay will present a documented Italian history of secrets devised in the late seventeenth cent...
This chapter revisits the thoughts, words and deeds of an early-seventeenth century Italian charlata...
Rather than present a conventional medical history, the book focuses on the medical pluralism presen...
This paper provides new material that sheds light on the theme of chiromancy during the Renaissance....
This article examines the role of street performers such as ballad singers and charlatans in the pub...
In 1621 the vice-protomedico of the Papal States was arrested while inspecting an apothecary's shop ...