We are interested in any and all theories, policies and practices of preventative healthcare at the population level among pre- and non-industrial societies across the world.
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Sarah May edited the post September 2023/ Upcoming Seminar. Guy Geltner, “The Nature of Preindustrial Mining: Environmental Perspectives and Knowledge Creation” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoNext week Wednesday 13 September, Guy Geltner will present at Melbourne University as part of its HSP (History of Philosophy and Science) Seminar Series.
OVERVIEW
When: 12.00(Melbourne local time), 13 […]
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Sarah May edited the post August 2023/ Upcoming Seminar: “The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThis week, Guy Geltner will present at Monash University, “The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe”, highlighting his research on miners in preindustrial Europe.
OVERVIEW (More details here) […]
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Sarah May edited the post Photo Gallery: Rocca San Silvestro, summer 2023 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month agoWe have released a photo gallery of 2023 summer fieldwork in Rocca San Silvestro, to be found in Media > Photo Gallery. A description follows, written by anthropologist and team member Serena Viva, who worked on […]
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Sarah May edited the post Call for contributions: Bibliography update: “The History of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month agoAs part of our years-long research track spanning two key research projects on premodern/ preindustrial health (About Us), we provide a bibliography of “The History of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies”. […]
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Sarah May edited the post We are moving to Mastodon in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoWe have set up a Mastodon account and aim to transition slowly into this federated, non-profit platform. Mastodon focuses on users’ privacy and collective governance.
Our platform is on the Humanities Commons […]
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Sarah May edited the post Symposium: Medieval Bodies: New Projects, New Perspectives in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoOrganised by Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch (Australian Catholic University) this symposium explores the ‘medieval body’ as a site of critical inquiry, through three ongoing research projects of disparate focuses: […]
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Sarah May wrote a new post Workshop: Workers’ Health and Material Environment in Port Cities (1300-1700) in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months agoWorkshop: Workers’ Health and Material Environment in Port Cities (1300-1700)
Organised by Dr. C.V. Weeda (Leiden University) and Marie-Louise Leonard (University Ca’ Foscari Venezia), this workshop includes thr […] -
Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 4 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Sarah May edited the post New project: Mining Activities, Public Health Strategies and Pollution Legacies in Europe, 1200-1600 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 6 months agoWe are excited to announce we have received funding from Monash Arts Faculty for a Health and Medical Research Accelerator project on preindustrial public health.
This research project builds on the work done […]
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Sarah May edited the post Lecture: Supplying the slave trade in 10th-century Prague in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoLola Digard, member of our previous research project, Healthscaping Premodern Europe, will be in discussion with Jane Fontaine tomorrow. Dr Fontaine’s lecture focuses on the role of the Prague market in the trade […]
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Sarah May wrote a new post Medieval Round Table: The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 7 months, 4 weeks agoGuy Geltner will be presenting at The University of Melbourne’s Medieval Round Table discussion group on 6 February 2023. The Round Table is an informal forum that meets monthly, usually on the first Monday of the […]
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Sarah May edited the post Virtual Book Launch: Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago13 January 2023, 12pm EST/ 6pm CET/ 10.30pm IST/ 4am + 1 AEDT
Online, zoom
Begin the new year with a virtual book launch for the fourth title in the “Health and Healing in the Middle Ages” series by publishers […] -
Sarah May edited the post Public Film Screening, Deakin University in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoDeakin Burwood Corporate Centre will hold their final CES stream event for the year: Unbounded Bodies, Dynamic Places: Biopolitics in the Preindustrial World, with Professor Guy Geltner on Tuesday 6 December […]
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Peyman Amiri wrote a new post New Article: Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 11 months agoCoomans, J., & Hermenault, L. (2022). Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent. Journal of Urban History
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Peyman Amiri wrote a new post New Publication – The healthscaping approach: Toward a global history of early public health in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week agoGeltner, G. and Janna Coomans. “The Healthscaping Approach: Toward a Global History of Early Public Health.” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.
This article presents a […] -
Peyman Amiri edited the post Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThe ERC project Premodern Healthscaping hosted its final conference ‘Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World’ at the University of Amsterdam on 29-30 September. During this two-day conference, the […]
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Peyman Amiri edited the post La vita urbana e le pratiche igieniche medievali a Bologna e in altre città in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year ago26 September 2022, 09:00-18:00
Università di Bologna (Aula 3, via Azzo Gardino 33 complesso Unione)
This conference explores the connections between population, health, and the urban environment in northern […] -
Peyman Amiri edited the post Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago30 September 2022, 16:00-17:30
University of Amsterdam, University Library, Doelenzaal
The ERC project ‘Healthscaping Urban Europe’ will hold a concluding plenary event on 30 September, where three experts will […] -
Sander Govaerts deposited Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoUsing the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe’s Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing s…[Read more]
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Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoppenbrouwers in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoEditors: Claire Weeda, Robert Stein, and Louis Sicking
Book series: CORN Publication Series, 20
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022
Abstract: Who had a say in making decisions about the natural world, […] - Load More
