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SUMMARY:A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flyin
 g Monk' Brother Cyprian - Katalin Pataki (Central European University\, Bu
 dapest)
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CONTACT:Sebestian Kroupa
DESCRIPTION:The herbarium of Brother Cyprian (1724–1775) is a unique col
 lection of 283 medicinal herbs and other plants that the Camaldolese lay b
 rother\, nicknamed 'The Flying Monk' for his legendary Daedalic exploits\,
  collected in the surroundings of the so-called Red Monastery (Červený K
 láštor\, Slovakia) in the Pieniny and Tatra Mountains at the borders of 
 the Hungarian Kingdom and Poland. Brother Cyprian was in charge of the inf
 irmary of the monastery\, as well as providing medical services to the inh
 abitants of the nearby settlements\, and his herbarium contains valuable r
 ecords about his medical experience and observations. Although Cyprian's w
 ork has attracted the attention of historians of medicine and botanists\, 
 who pointed to his receptivity to current trends in natural knowledge\, no
  written evidence has been found that would inform about his ambitions to 
 use his knowledge in long-distance networks of intellectual or material ex
 change. For this reason\, my research focuses on two alternative ways to l
 earn about his strategies and attitudes to acquire and use his natural and
  medical expertise. On the one hand\, I explore his personal interactions 
 with other intellectuals in the region as potential mediators\, who shaped
  his interests and ways of observations. On the other hand\, relying on th
 e inventories of the monastery\, I will reconstruct Cyprian's working envi
 ronment and investigate the making and the use of the herbarium in the con
 text of the material culture in which it was created.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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