Inoculation is reflected in religious rhetoric and, I argue, medieval themes of mithridatism. 

Josh Compton

This presentation examines how reflections of medieval medicine in popular culture line up with—or not—the practice of attitudinal inoculation (exposure to weakened counterarguments to confer resistance to stronger persuasive attacks encountered later), represented in the classic theory of resistance to influence to consider how depictions of medieval mithridatism can help to teach—or not—persuasion theory, and vice versa. 

Compton, J. (2019, January). Medieval mithridatism and/as attitudinal inoculation in popular culture [presentation]. Researching, Teaching, and Learning the Middle Ages through Popular Culture: Medievalism and All That. Accademia Europea di Firenze, Florence, Italy.