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.
Peyman Amiri edited the post The Silk Roads as a Model for Exploring Eurasian Transmissions of Medical Knowledge: Online Workshop in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoOnline Workshop with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 15:00-17:00 (CEST)
How can we begin to think about transmissions of medical knowledge in medieval Eurasia? What type of work can be done in order to engage with this question? Can the “Silk Road” help us to engage with this question?
This workshop will discuss some of the dir…[Read more]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Janna Coomans Won the 2020 Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 3 days agoJanna Commans, a member of the Premodern Healthscaping Project, has won the 2020 Praemium Erasmianum dissertation prize for her work on Public Health in the Late Medieval Low Countries.
You can read more about […]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Pest en politie: De politiek van publieke gezondheid toen en nu in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoPublieke gezondheid en politiemacht zijn historisch altijd aan elkaar verbonden geweest. Tijdens eerdere pandemieën kwam er een sterkere controle op en stigmatisering van armere bevolkingsgroepen. Juist nu moet […]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Roads to Health wins AAIS Book Awards in Medieval Studies in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoRoads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press) wins American Association for Italian Studies Book Awards in Medieval Studies for 2019. In this book, […]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post “Rural Policing in Trecento Piedmont: A Forgotten Urban Gaze and Its Obstruction” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoThursday 23 April 2020, 08:00 CET
Seminar on Zoom
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program seminar
Professor Guy Geltner Professor of Medieval History Monash University
Hinterlands’ role in the growth of c […]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post New Publication: Mapping Health in the Middle Ages in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago“Public health is often thought of as a by-product of modernity, yet historical evidence shows that numerous stakeholders in Medieval Europe took steps to reduce risks and improve health outcomes.”
Guy Geltner, […]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Historical Parallels between the Black Death/Second Plague Pandemic and the Current Coronavirus Crisis in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoJanna Coomans discussed the historical parallels between the Black Death/Second Plague Pandemic and the current Coronavirus crisis on Radio 1 (Sunday 22 March) and in a recent blog post, (both in Dutch). They can […]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Salutaria! Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing in Medieval and Early Modern History in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoFriday, 24 April 2020, 09:00-17:00
Monash Club, 32 Exhibition Walk, Monash University, Clayton Campus
The preservation of health and the pursuit of wellness were major preoccupations during the Medieval and […]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Calling Some Public Health Initiatives “Medieval” is Harmful in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoThe “Middle Ages” have been making the headlines since the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and its presence in at least 29 countries around the globe. As the list of the dead and infected grows worryingly long, obs […]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Symposium on Paleopathology, Disability, and Care in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe next Paleopathology Association European Meeting will be held in the city of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. The central theme for the conference will be “Paleopathology and its impact on medicine and s […]
Peyman Amiri edited the post Janna Coomans Won the 2019 Pro Civitate Award of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoJanna Commans, a member of the Premodern Healthscaping Project, has won the prestigious Pro Civitate award of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts for her doctoral thesis In Pursuit of a Healthy City: Sanitation and the Common Good in the Late Medieval Low Countries for its “original and important contribution to city history…[Read more]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months agoMaynooth University, Ireland
19–21 March 2020
This interdisciplinary conference explores the reception and transmission of medical knowledge between and across England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and S […]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post ‘Public Health’ in the Middle Ages: Healthscaping Urban Europe in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months agoBijeenkomst van de werkgroep ‘History, Health and Healing’
vrijdag 7 februari 2020, 13.00-18.00 uur
Universiteitsbibliotheek locatie Uithof, Heidelberglaan 3, Utrecht (Boothzaal)
Tijdens deze bijeenkomst van […]Peyman Amiri edited the post Early Public Health Wikithon in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoWednesday, 29 January 2020, 15:30 CET
Bushuis room F2.08B (Kloveniersburgwal 48 Amsterdam)
Facilitated by Guy Geltner (UvA) and Alice White (Wellcome Trust)
We invite you all to join the Premodern Healthscaping team to make a focused intervention on Public Health History and a handful of related entries on Wikipedia in languages other than…[Read more]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Representations of Circulation and Flow in Eleventh-Century Urban China – A Workshop with Christian de Pee in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThursday, 6 February 2020, 15:00-17:00.
Oost-Indisch Huis, D2.04 (Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam)
This workshop is dedicated to discussing Christian de Pee’s recent work on representations of circulation and […]Peyman Amiri edited the post Premodern Healthscaping in China in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoSaturday, 1 June 2019, 08:30-11:30
Guy Geltner and Taylor Zaneri will present their paper Mapping Health in Medieval Bologna: A Geospatial and Environmental Approach in Renmin University of China (Beijing) during a two-day conference titled The Nature of Health, the Health of Nature: Perspectives from History and the Humanities. You can read m…[Read more]
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Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks ago“The path to Pistoia: Urban hygiene before the Black Death”
Now out in advance (and open) access on the Past& Present website:
https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtz028/5580562-
G. Geltner deposited In the Camp and on the March: Military Manuals as Sources for Studying Premodern Public Health in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoHistorians tend to view public health as a quintessentially modern phenomenon, enabled by the emergence of representative democracies, centralized bureaucracies and advanced biomedicine. While social, urban and religious historians have begun chipping away at the entrenched dichotomy between pre/modernity that this view implies, evidence for…[Read more]
Peyman Amiri deleted the file: Bibliography of premodern public health (eds. Coomans and Geltner; updated 10 September 2017) from
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoPeyman Amiri uploaded the file: Bibliography of premodern public health (eds. Coomans and Geltner; updated 28 August 2018) to
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThis is a list of secondary sources with direct bearing on the history of public health before c. 1750. It is predominantly European and Mediterranean, although we are gradually expanding the geographical coverage of studies concerning population-level, preventative interventions in pre-modernity. Wherever possible, we added links to works that…[Read more]
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