Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka: „Kiedy krew puszczać, kiedy bańki stawiać…”. Jatromatematyka (medycyna astrologiczna) w wiekach średnich [“When to perform bloodletting, when to apply cupping…” Jatromathematics (astrological medicine) in the Middle Ages].

 Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka: „Kiedy krew puszczać, kiedy bańki stawiać…”. Jatromatematyka (medycyna astrologiczna) w wiekach średnich [“When to perform bloodletting, when to apply cupping…” Jatromathematics (astrological medicine) in the Middle Ages]. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach 2025, ISBN 978-83-8377-057-4, e-ISBN 978-83-8377-058-1

Obserwacja ciał niebieskich od zawsze stanowiła istotny element ludzkiej egzystencji. Ciałom niebieskim od zawsze przypisywano moce oddziaływania na wszelkie aspekty ziemskiego życia, także na kwestie zdrowia i choroby. Medycyna astrologiczna zwana jatromatematyką była znaczącą częścią astrologii naturalnej, pod pewnymi względami aprobowanej także przez Kościół. Osadzona była na dwóch fundamentalnych filarach, tj. medycynie humoralnej i tzw. teorii melotezji, która bazowała na korelacji pomiędzy ciałami niebieskimi a poszczególnymi częściami i narządami ciała ludzkiego. Jatromatematyka była nie tylko teoretycznie rozwijana o czym świadczą liczne zachowane dzieła, ale znajdowała także praktyczne zastosowanie w kalendarzach, prognostykach astrologicznych i horoskopach.

Spis treści

Wstęp . . . 7

ROZDZIAŁ I

Narodziny jatromatematyki . . . . . 15

Teoria humoralna . . . . . .. . . . 19

Melotezja i wynikające z niej implikacje (choroby i dolegliwości) . . 34

ROZDZIAŁ II

Jatromatematyka w kręgu uczonych arabsko-muzułmańsko-żydowskich.. 75

Rozwój astrologii . . . . . . .. . . . . 80

Rozwój medycyny . . . . . 92

Rozwój jatromatematyki . . . . . . 99

Jatromatematyka w dziełach astrologicznych . . . . . 115

Medycyna talizmaniczna . . . . . . . 150

W kierunku łacińskiego Zachodu… . . . 155

ROZDZIAŁ III

Jatromatematyka w Europie chrześcijańskiej . . . . . . . . . . 159

Jatromatematyka nieakademicka . . . .. . . 159

Uczelnie, uczeni i ich dzieła . . .. . . . . . 167

Prognostykarstwo . . . . .. . . . 212

Plagi i zarazy . . . . . 223

Jatromatematyka na dworach . . . . . . 234

ROZDZIAŁ IV

Jatromatematyka w Polsce . . . . . . .. . 255

Medycyna i astrologia na uniwersytecie krakowskim . . . . . 255

Noty i traktaty jatromatematyczne . . . . . . . . .. 273

Introductoria astronomiae vel astrologiae . . . . .. . . 289

Prognostyki i kalendarze astrologiczne . . . . . 296

Mór . . . . . . .. . . 317

Zielniki . . . . . . 327

Jatromatematyka – między akademicką teorią a dworską praktyką . . 333

Zakończenie . .. . 343

Bibliografia . . . . . . 357

Źródła rękopiśmienne…..357

Inkunabuły i stare druki………358

Źródła drukowane ….365

Monografie i opracowania….380

Miglė Bareikytė, Svitlana Matviyenko & Taras Nazaruk (eds.) Histories and legacies of digital infrastructures in Eastern and Central Europe: from Soviet cybernetics to regional Internet histories

 Miglė Bareikytė, Svitlana Matviyenko & Taras Nazaruk (eds.) Histories and legacies of digital infrastructures in Eastern and Central Europe: from Soviet cybernetics to regional Internet histories (= Internet Histories, Volume 10, Issue 1-2 (2026))

Bareikytė, Miglė, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Taras Nazaruk. 2026. “Introduction: Histories and Legacies of Digital Infrastructures in Eastern and Central Europe: From Soviet Cybernetics to Regional Internet Histories.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 1–10. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2642542.

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė. 2026. “De-Centring the History of the Internet in the Soviet Union: Computers, Networks and the Infrastructural Politics of Digitality in Lithuania.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 11–28. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639224.

Herrmann, Felix. 2026. “No Digital Networks without Computers. The Shortcomings of the Soviet Computer Industry.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 29–44. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2642544.

Velmet, Aro. 2026. “Database Politics: Informational Infrastructure and Network Utopias in Soviet and Post-Soviet Estonia.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 45–64. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639221.

Da Silva, Erik. 2026. “Networked Isolation: Albania’s Computer Network History during the Cold War and the Transition.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 65–81. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639223.

Hilstob, Kayla. 2026. “Exporting Obsolescence: Canada’s Nortel Networks in Eastern and Central Europe.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 82–97. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639244.

Daucé, Françoise. 2026. “The Great Game. How Video Games Servers Map Ukraine in Wartime.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 98–116. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2662716.

Makhortykh, Mykola. 2026. “Constructing the (in)Security: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Cybersecurity in Ukraine before and after Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 117–34. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639228.

Phan, Vu Thuy Anh. 2026. “Assemblages of Occupation: The Politics of Internet Resource Transfers in Wartime Ukraine.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 135–51. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639245.

Bareikytė, Miglė, and Johanna Hiebl. 2026. “Hybrid Frontiers: Resilient Investigative Data and Media Practices and Tactical Avoidance in the Baltics.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 152–69. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2639222.

Shumylovych, Bohdan, Taras Nazaruk, Oleksa Baliura, and Maryna Malchenyuk. 2026. “UaNetHistory Project: Documenting the First Decades of Ukraine’s Internet. An Interview with Olexa Baliura and Maryna Malchenyuk.” Internet Histories 10 (1–2): 170–81. doi:10.1080/24701475.2026.2663687.

Call for papers: Cartographies of Crises

Call for papers: Cartographies of Crises: Mapping Conflict, Disaster, and Uncertainty (19th–21st Centuries)

The international workshop Cartographies of Crises: Mapping Conflict, Disaster, and Uncertainty (19th–21st Centuries) organised by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czechia) and the University of Erfurt, Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (Gotha, Germany) will take place on 26th–27th November 2026 at the Centre for Transcultural Studies / Perthes Collection (CG2 - Pagenhaus, Schlossplatz 1, Gotha).

Call for Papers (https://www.hiu.cas.cz/user_uploads/badatelum_i_verejnosti/udalosti/2026_11_26_27_workshop_cartographies_of_crises/cfp_cartographies_of_crises_workshop_2026.pdf)

Thematic mapping has played a crucial role in visualising, interpreting, and communicating physical and socio-economic phenomena. This has been particularly true in times of crises, when maps have been used to represent wars, forced migrations, epidemics, environmental disasters, social upheavals, political conflicts, and anticipatedthreat scenarios. In such contexts, maps have served not only as instruments of documentation but also as analytical tools, persuasive arguments, and means of intervention.

This workshop focuses on the cartographies of crises from the 19th to the 21st century and seeks to advance research on the thematic mapping of crises. Contributions are invited that engage with a broad range of cartographic practices, from individual and hand-drawn maps to official state mapping, thematic atlases, recent digital mapping projects, and approaches associated with Historical GIS and Digital Humanities.

Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which maps represent experiences of uncertainty, disruption, displacement, and shifting identities, as well as to the role of cartography in shaping public perceptions of crises and historical memory. Proposals are welcome that explore how actors across the political and social spectrum have used cartography in response to different forms of crisis – from state and institutional mapping efforts to grassroots and counter-mapping practices – and how these maps both reflected

and shaped individual and collective understandings of phenomena such as war, displacement, epidemics, and environmental disasters.

The workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on this specific category of cartographic sources and to encourage comparative perspectives across different historical periods and world regions. Contributions focusing on non-Western actors and cartographic traditions are particularly welcome. The study of how crises have been mapped and visualised offers new insights into both individual and collective responses to situations of threat and uncertainty, as well as into the role of maps in shaping processes of governance, intervention, and social transformation. The topic is particularly relevant today, as the study of historical crisis mapping deepens our understanding of the visual languages through which contemporary crises are represented, interpreted, and governed.

Contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes are invited:

Maps as analytical tools and instruments of power and governance: crisis management, political argumentation, propaganda, real-time mapping during ongoing crises and disasters, and the role of state and institutional actors;

Visual languages and cartographic conventions: standardisation, symbols, techniques of representation;

Counter-mapping and grassroots practices: non-institutional actors, communities, and individuals as producers of crisis cartographies; maps as tools of resistance, negotiation, and contestation;

Methodological and comparative perspectives: Historical GIS, Digital Humanities, digital mapping projects, transnational approaches, and studies of non-Western cartographic traditions.

The deadline for submitting abstracts (300 words) and a short CV is 10 September 2026. Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their proposals by 20 September 2026. Each participant will have 20 minutes for their presentation, followed by discussion.

Please submit your proposal using the online form available at: https://forms.gle/Sg1kyeNoSyH5Rukv7

There is no registration fee. To facilitate international participation, the organisers will cover accommodation costs for all accepted speakers. Travel expenses will be covered either partially or in full, depending on available funding.

Organisers:

Jitka Močičková (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences): mocickova@hiu.cas.cz

Dominic Keyssner (University of Erfurt): dominic.keyssner@uni-erfurt.de

The workshop is organised with the support of the Strategy AV21 research programme Identities in the World of Wars and Crises (Czech Academy of Sciences, 2026) and the University of Erfurt.

Witold Jan Chmielewski: Łukasz Kurdybacha w Palestynie [Łukasz Kurdybacha in Palestine].

 Witold Jan Chmielewski: Łukasz Kurdybacha w Palestynie [Łukasz Kurdybacha in Palestine]. Aspra/Instytut Historii Nauki im. L. & A. Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk 2025. ISBN 9788382093728

Monografia stanowi pogłębione studium działalności Łukasza Kurdybachy na uchodźstwie w Palestynie w okresie II wojny światowej. Autor, Witold Chmielewski, rekonstruuje jego wielowymiarowe zaangażowanie w organizację polskiego szkolnictwa uchodźczego, proces wydawniczy podręczników i kanonicznych dzieł literatury polskiej oraz publicystykę poświęconą problemom wychowania i kształtowania postaw obywatelskich.

Publikacja ukazuje Kurdybachę jako jedną z kluczowych postaci polskiej myśli pedagogicznej na emigracji, podkreślając jego rolę w podtrzymywaniu edukacji, kultury i tożsamości narodowej w warunkach wojennego uchodźstwa.

Książka adresowana jest do badaczy historii wychowania, dziejów emigracji oraz wszystkich zainteresowanych intelektualnym dziedzictwem polskiej edukacji XX wieku.

Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk: Modernizacje widzenia. Władysław Heinrich, Wacław Berent a drogi rozwoju polskiej psychologii doświadczalnej [The Modernizations of Perception. Wacław Berent, Władysław Heinrich and the Paths of Development of Polish Experimental Psychology].

 Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk: Modernizacje widzenia. Władysław Heinrich, Wacław Berent a drogi rozwoju polskiej psychologii doświadczalnej [The Modernizations of Perception. Wacław Berent, Władysław Heinrich and the Paths of Development of Polish Experimental Psychology]. Warszawa: WUW 2026. ISSN:

978-83-235-7136-0

OA: https://wuw.pl/data/include/cms//Modernizacje_widzenia_Borowska_Kazimiruk_Sylwia_2026.pdf

Praca ma charakter interdyscyplinarny, łącząc perspektywy historii literatury, psychologii, filozofii i nauki. Autorka podejmuje próbę rekonstrukcji kulturowego modelu „widzenia” obecnego w polskiej literaturze modernistycznej, zakorzenionego w psychologii eksperymentalnej i filozofii empiriokrytycznej. Centralnym przedmiotem analizy jest powieść Ozimina autorstwa Wacława Berenta, interpretowana na tle rozwoju psychologii eksperymentalnej zapoczątkowanej przez Wilhelma Wundta. Ważnym kontekstem jest także działalność Władysława Heinricha, który rozwijał te idee na gruncie polskim.

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The Modernizations of Perception. Wacław Berent, Władysław Heinrich and the Paths of Development of Polish Experimental Psychology

The work is interdisciplinary in nature, combining perspectives from the history of literature, psychology, philosophy and science. The author attempts to reconstruct the cultural model of “perception” present in Polish modernist literature, rooted in experimental psychology and empiriocritical philosophy. The central subject of the analysis is the novel Ozimina by Wacław Berent, interpreted against the background of the development of experimental psychology initiated by Wilhelm Wundt. An important context is also the activity of Władysław Heinrich, who developed these ideas in Poland.

Keywords: experimental psychology, Polish modernism, symbolism, modernizations of perception, personal perception.

NEW JOURNAL: East of the Elbe Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe

 East of the Elbe

Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe

A Subscribe-to-Open Journal – New in 2027

More: https://www.whpress.co.uk/EE.html

Watch This Space

More information will become available in in Summer 2026. Submissions are planned to open in Autumn 2026. First Issue: 2027.

Journal Scope

East of the Elbe is a new peer-reviewed, open access forum for the environmental history of: • East-Central Europe (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary) • Central Europe (Austria, relevant regions of Germany) • Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, western Russia) • Southeastern/Balkan Europe (Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, and other former Yugoslav republics) • The Baltic region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Comparative studies engaging multiple regions or connecting CEE to broader European/global environmental histories will also be welcomed.

Priority topics

Forest and water histories; river engineering and infrastructure • Histories of pollution, toxicity, environmental health, and discard studies • Waste management and consumption regimes • Environmentalism and environmental movements (grassroots and state-sponsored) • State socialism and environmental governance; centralised planning and ecological consequences • Technopolitics of nature; technological modernisation and environmental transformation • Agricultural and rural environmental change; collectivisation and land use • Industrial development, mining, and environmental impact • Urban environmental history, infrastructure, and ecosystems • Biodiversity, conservation, protected areas, and species histories • Environmental thought, ideology, and scientific knowledge production • Post-socialist environmental transitions and legacies • Gender and consumption history; everyday environmentalism • Comparative regional and transnational environmental history • Long-term socio-ecological dynamics and ecological footprint analysis.

Temporal scope

All historical periods are welcome, from medieval to contemporary, with particular emphasis on the 18th–21st centuries and especially the socialist period (1945–1991) and its legacies.

The journal will publish both double blind peer reviewed papers and invited material. Special Issue proposals are welcome and should be directed to the Editors.

Subscribe to Open

East of the Elbe is conceived as open access. For 2027, we are seeking to cover the journal's production costs without charging author fees through a Subscribe-to-Open offer combined with support from institutional founding sponsors, whose substantial contributions will be publicly recognised. Please contact James or Sarah at The White Horse Press to discuss these opportunities.

If our preferred funding model does not prove financially sustainable for the journal, APCs might apply after the launch period; in the event that APCs are introduced later, a waiver scheme will be available.

Values and Principles

The journal will embed principles of inclusion and diversity, manifested in the editorial board, peer review policies and the goal of achieving sustainable Open access without fees to either readers or contributors. The White Horse Press is committed to the fair treatment of all authors, editors and reviewers, and particularly concerned to support Early Career Researchers. Our goal is to forge lasting relationships, based on mutual respect. East of the Elbe adheres to the publication standards and ethics shared by all White Horse Press publications. The submission process will request multi-authored papers to attach a statement of how the work was divided between the authors and how the order of authors has been decided. It is important to foster communication between academic communities in different regions and working in different languages. The journal will welcome contributions first published in languages other than English and WHP will offer support in honing the English.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Founding Editors:

Stephen Brain   Mississippi State University

Viktor Pál  University of Ostrava

Enquiries:

Please send any enquiries to the publisher, The White Horse Press. Editorial contact information will be provided once the journal is fully operational.

CFP: Unionize the Science: Agency and Infrastructures of Knowledge in Eurasia, 20th–21st Centuries

 Unionize the Science: Agency and Infrastructures of Knowledge in Eurasia, 20th–21st Centuries

International Conference

Yerevan, Armenia | 5–7 November, 2026

The Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE) is delighted to announce the international conference “Unionize the Science: Agency and Infrastructures of Knowledge in Eurasia, 20th–21st Centuries.” The conference is funded and organized as part of the YCIE Co-Funded Conferences program and will be held in Yerevan, Armenia, November 5–7, 2026.

The conference explores the social agency of science in socialist and post-socialist contexts, with particular attention to the institutional, material, and spatial infrastructures that shaped the production, circulation, and contestation of knowledge. Rather than approaching the history of knowledge through narratives of grand achievement or through images of scientists operating beyond bureaucratic and political structures, this event foregrounds science as a domain of action embedded in broader relations between state, society, economy, and culture.

We welcome proposals from historians of science, STS scholars, historians of late socialism, sociologists, anthropologists of knowledge, and researchers from related fields. The conference aims to create an interdisciplinary forum for examining how scientific knowledge was produced, institutionalised, circulated, and redefined across Eurasian contexts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Yerevan offers an especially compelling setting for this discussion. In the late Soviet period, the Armenian SSR was a major scientific hub, and today Yerevan remains a site where scientific institutions, infrastructures, and memories continue to be reinterpreted and publicly contested.

We particularly encourage proposals addressing themes such as:

Geographies of knowledge: technopoles, clusters, and scientific cities;

Research infrastructures and the materiality of science;

Big science projects and their publics, including nuclear and space programmes, cybernetics, and computer networks.

Innovations, from grassroots initiatives to state regulation;

Knowledge and technology transfers across socialist and post-socialist worlds;

Scientific Institutes and Universities as third spaces;

Science and technology heritage in Central Eurasia;

Political economy of knowledge production;

Cultural representations of science;

Science and technology heritage in Central Eurasia;

Big science projects and their publics, including nuclear and space programmes, cybernetics, and computer networks.

Funding and Organization 

The conference is funded by the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE). 

Organizing Committee: Dr. Mikhail Piskunov, Dr. Timofey Rakov, and Dr. Alexander Fokin.

Submission Guidelines

All materials must be submitted in English.

All submissions must be made online via the electronic form; email submissions will not be accepted.

Deadline: August 2, 2026

Notification of acceptance: By September 2, 2026

To apply, please submit the following via the electronic form below:

Your paper abstract (maximum 1,500 characters, including spaces)

Your CV in PDF format

Working language: English

Format: In-person event only

Travel and Accommodation

Travel and accommodation costs are the responsibility of participants.

YCIE will provide a limited number of accommodation grants for the duration of the conference upon request. Please note that only one hotel room can be provided per co-authored paper. Accommodation decisions will be communicated along with the conference selection results.

There is no registration fee.

For any inquiries, please contact: timofey.rakov@gmail.com