# Event Details

- **Event Name**: MERCANTILE CULTURES OF HEALTH. Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval «Zibaldoni»
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 22 Jul, 2025 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: In the late Middle Ages, merchants were not solely engaged in the trade of textiles, spices, and finances—they were also key transmitters and practitioners of medical knowledge. This lecture explores the deep entanglement between commerce and medicine by analyzing trade manuals, personal memoirs, and zibaldoni compiled by merchants between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 

In an era marked by long journeys, widespread epidemics, and precarious hygiene, merchants needed to manage not only goods and credit, but also health—both their own and that of their commercial networks. Medicinal spices and drugs such as theriac, aloe, opium, and pepper were traded widely and featured prominently in commercial inventories and instructions. 

Using sources like Pegolotti’s Pratica della mercatura, Morelli’s Ricordanze, and merchant zibaldoni, this lecture reveals a culture of health embedded in the practices of major trading houses. Merchants learned to assess the quality of remedies, adapt to regional health risks, and preserve therapeutic substances across their international branches. 

Their personal notebooks often recorded vernacular medical recipes, family experiences of illness, and even prescriptions from renowned physicians. Far from being passive intermediaries, merchants acted as curators and disseminators of practical, multilingual, and experience-based medical knowledge. 

This mercantile health culture—bridging learned and lay traditions—offered not only economic resilience but also strategies for bodily survival. In the conclusions, I will argue that in the late medieval world, managing health was as integral to merchant identity as navigating markets or maintaining ledgers.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pisa-italy/mercantile-cultures-of-health-hygiene-and-commerce-in-the-late-medieval-«zibaldoni»/200028125832656
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, business
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Pisa, Italy
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, Via Cardinale Pietro Maffi, 46, 56126 Pisa PI, Italia, Pisa, Italy

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is MERCANTILE CULTURES OF HEALTH. Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval «Zibaldoni» being held?
  - **A:** MERCANTILE CULTURES OF HEALTH. Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval «Zibaldoni» takes place on Tue, 22 Jul, 2025 at 03:00 pm to Tue, 22 Jul, 2025 at 03:00 pm at Online event, Via Cardinale Pietro Maffi, 46, 56126 Pisa PI, Italia, Pisa, Italy.
- **Q**: Who is organizing MERCANTILE CULTURES OF HEALTH. Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval «Zibaldoni»?
  - **A:** MERCANTILE CULTURES OF HEALTH. Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval «Zibaldoni» is organized by Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance - CSMBR.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** MERCANTILE CULTURES OF HEALTH. Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval «Zibaldoni» is ideal for professionals, entrepreneurs, startup founders, and networking enthusiasts eager to grow their connections. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Pisa, Italy, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If MERCANTILE CULTURES OF HEALTH. Hygiene and Commerce in the Late-Medieval «Zibaldoni» sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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