Research seminar by Martin Muslow (Erfurt University) at the German Historical Institute London.
In the early 1670s Martin Fogel, a physician and linguist from Hamburg, inquired into rumours about Maslach, a drug that the Ottoman Turks supposedly gave their soldiers to enhance their fighting abilities. The lecture will trace the entangled history of the Maslach debate from Fogel’s perspective and the Ottoman side. It will demonstrate how an intellectual history focusing on scholarly practices can contribute to a transcultural history of this era.
Martin Mulsow is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Erfurt and Director of the Gotha Research Centre for Early Modern Studies. His main areas of research are Renaissance philosophy, the history of early modern scholarship, clandestine literature, and radical Enlightenment. His most recent book is Prekäres Wissen: Eine andere Ideengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (2012).
The talk starts at 5.30 pm.