2026

Professor Leah DeVun (Rutgers University)
Biological Facts: Doing the History of Nonbinary Sex and Gender in Premodern Europe

2025

Dr Peter Murray (University of Cambridge)
Friars and Healing in Fifteenth-century York

2024

Dr Iona Cleery (University of Leeds)
Turtles, Oysters and Quails: Health and Natural History in Fifteenth-century West Africa

2023

Dr Catherine Rider (Exeter)
Telling Stories about Illness and Magic: Magical Remedies and the Inquisition in Early Modern Malta

2022

Dr Zubin Mistry (Edinburgh)
Reproduction, Religion and the Social History of Early Medieval Medicine

2021

Dr Sarah Baccianti (Queen’s University Belfast)
Mapping Medical Knowledge in Medieval Iceland: Manuscripts and Sagas

2020

Cancelled, due to Covid

2019

Dr James Palmer (St Andrews)
Charlemagne’s Sciences and the Framing of Carolingian Religion, 757-818

2018

Michael Schonhardt (Freiburg)
A Scientific Revolution before Galilei? How the astrolabe transformed 11th-century science (in Bavaria)

2017

Professor Guy Geltner (Amsterdam)
Premodern Public Health: The End of an Oxymoron

2016

Professor Carol Rawcliffe (East Anglia)
Christ the Physician Walks the Wards: Religion and Medicine in the Later Middle Ages

Dr Maria de la Cruz de Carlos Varona (Madrid)
Giving Birth at the Habsburg Court in the Sixteenth Century

Professor S.K Cohn (Glasgow)
Naming and Blaming in Early Modern Europe: The Case of Syphilis