Edward Worth Library, Dublin
 webinar on
‘Reading, Teaching and Collecting Anatomy in Early Modern Europe’.
Wednesday 29 September 2021.
2.00-5.00pm.
Videos of most of the presentations are now available on Youtube.
Our newest exhibition
‘Reading the Body at the Edward Worth Library and the Old Anatomy Museum, Trinity College Dublin‘
was launched at the webinar!
‘Travelling to the Levant in early Modern Europe‘.
This exhibition, curated by Mr Antoine Mac GaoithÃn,
Library Assistant of the Edward Worth Library,
focuses on Worth’s texts about early modern European travel to the Levant.
The fourth lecture in the Edward Worth Library Seminar Series will he held at
3.00pm on 7 July 2021.
The speaker will be Dr Hannah Murphy (King’s College London, School of History): ‘Extraordinary Physicians and Everyday Medicine in Renaissance Germany’.
This is the Grizelda Steevens Memorial Lecture in Medical History.
This event will be held via Zoom.
For booking details see The Edward Worth Library 2021 Seminar Series.
On 19 May 2021 Dr Elizabethanne Boran will be giving a lecture on
‘Dr Edward Worth and infectious diseases in early eighteenth-century Dublin’
as part of the Royal Academy of Medicine’s lecture series.
For booking details see RAMIBoranFlyer.
The third lecture in the Edward Worth Library Seminar Series will be held at
3.00pm on 9 June 2021.
The speaker will be Dr Elva Johnston (UCD School of History): ‘Female Saints and the Tallaght Community in the Early Middle Ages’.
This event will be held via Zoom.
For booking details see The Edward Worth Library 2021 Seminar Series.
The second lecture in the Edward Worth Library 2021 Seminar Series will he held at
5.15pm on 6 May 2021.
The speaker will be Dr Sarah Baccianti (QUB): ‘Mapping Medical Knowledge in Medieval Iceland: Manuscripts and Sagas.’
This is the joint Worth Library-TCD Medieval and Renaissance Scientific and Medical History seminar.
Please note that this lecture will take place at 5.15pm.
For booking details see The Edward Worth Library 2021 Seminar Series.
The first in the Edward Worth Library 2021 Seminar Series will be held at
3.00pm on Monday 12 April.
The speaker will be Dr Cathy Scuffil (Dublin City Historian in residence), ‘Down by the river Poddle’.
This is the local history lecture in the series. This event will be held via Zoom.
For booking details see The Edward Worth Library 2021 Seminar Series.
An interview with the Librarian of the Edward Worth Library
is now available on the blog of
SOCIÉTÉ BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE FRANCE.
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The 2021 February Book of the Month is
John Speed’s The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (London, 1676),
by Mr Charles Watson, TCD M. Phil. in Public History and Cultural Heritage.