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 “Eat, Pray, Dig: Preventative Healthcare Among Miners in Europe, 1200-1600” – Lecture by Guy Geltner in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 6 days, 11 hours agoEver since miners began excavating Europe’s „underground cathedrals” in the later twelfth century, they encountered many hazards both below and above the ground. This talk examines the cluster of dangers miners […]
Peyman Amiri edited the post Interview with Claire Weeda about her new book “Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoStudents in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On Crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each […]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Urban health in the Middle Ages and Today: Changing Community Politics and Environments in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoJanna Coomans
Through vaccination campaigns and lifting restrictions, authorities across the globe are promoting the idea of a return to normal, yet which form the ‘end’ of the COVID pandemic will take is unc […]Peyman Amiri edited the post Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoClaire Weeda
On 26 March 1215, the brash Bolognese rhetorician Boncompagno da Signa read aloud his manual of rhetoric, Rhetorica antiqua,in front of the college of professors of civil and canon law. If some of his students had nodded off by the time he reached book VI, about the art of writing letters of consolation, they might have jolted awake…[Read more]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Call for Papers: Health, Environment and Urban Development in the Middle Ages in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoNew Dates: 17-18 February 2022
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, Trondheim
New Abstract Submission Date: 17 December 2021(The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of […]
Peyman Amiri edited the post Matter into Place: Public Health and Urban Space in the Medieval Low Countries in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoOnline Workshop
Friday, 9 July 2021, 9:00-13:00 CEST
Program:
09:00-10:45 Session1: Waterscapes
Janna Coomans, Léa Hermenault (University of Amsterdam)
Water infrastructures and public works as key elements of an economy of movement in Ghent (14th-15th centuries)Frank Gelaude (University of Antwerp)
Controlling rivers in the medieval…[Read more]Peyman Amiri edited the post Approaches to Life and Health in Medieval Cities – Online Workshop in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 7 months agoFeaturing the launch of the Healthscaping WebGIS
Friday, 25 June 2021, 15:00-18:00 CEST/ 9:00-12:00 EST
Program:
15:00 Introduction: Launching the Healthscaping Map
Guy Geltner, University of Amsterdam and Monash University15:10 Mapping Public Health Measures in Late Medieval Bologna
Taylor Zaneri, University of Amsterdam15:40…[Read more]
Peyman Amiri edited the post The dynamics of healthscaping: Mapping communal hygiene in Bologna, 1287–1383 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 7 months agoTaylor Zaneri & G. Geltner
Abstract: This article traces how urban communities operating with a humoral or Galenic medical paradigm understood and confronted the health challenges facing them, using the extraordinarily well-documented case of Bologna, Italy. Working within a GIS environment, the authors spatially analyse over 3,500 events…[Read more]Peyman Amiri edited the post Pigs and Plague: Public Health and Community in the Late Medieval Low Countries – Online Lecture in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks agoFriday, 18 June 2021, 16.00 CEST
Janna Coomans will give a lecture for the digital lectures series organized and hosted every fortnight by Somewhere beyond the Sea, the Belgo-British Research Network. The talk […]
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Social, Legal and Emotional Aspects of Conflicts in Western Europe, 1300-1600 – Online Workshop in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThursday. 13 May 2021 16:00-18:00 CEST
Online
In premodern societies, the notions of honour and reputation helped to frame social interactions on different scales. On a personal and familial level, pursuing […]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Infectious Disease and Public Health: Lessons from History – Webinar in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThursday, 22 April, 17:00 AEST
Online
In 2020 Covid-19 reminded us all that we can learn valuable lessons from the history of infectious disease. This webinar brings together three historians of public health i […]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 9 months, 4 weeks agoFriday, 23 April, 9:00 to 16:30 AEST
Online
The preservation of health and the pursuit of wellness were major preoccupations during the Medieval and Renaissance period. This was not limited to just the body […]Peyman Amiri edited the post Kinetic health: Ecologies and mobilities of prevention in Europe, c. 1100-1600 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months agoG. Geltner
ABSTRACT: This article coins and deploys the term kinetic health as part of a broader attempt to historicize the mobilities paradigm from the standpoint of past community prophylactics. It uses the example of Galenic or humoral medicine, which for millennia organized individual and group health as a dynamic systems balance among…[Read more]
Peyman Amiri edited the post Call for Papers: Health, Environment and Urban Development in the Middle Ages in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago6-7 October 2021
Norwegian University of Science and technology, University Museum, Trondheim
The conference completes the Norwegian Research Council funded project “Medieval urban health: from private to public responsibility” (2017-2020), whose goal is to shed new light on how public health evolved from individual health practices to act…[Read more]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Underground and Over the Sea: More Community Prophylactics in Europe, 1100-1600 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks agoBy Guy Geltner and Claire Weeda
Abstract: Public health historians have repeatedly shown that the theory, policy, and practice of group prophylactics far predate their alleged birth in industrial modernity, and […]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Call for Papers: 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year agoKeeping Apart and Coming Together: Mobility Restrictions and Confinement as Health Practices in a Longue Durée Perspective
Theme: 2. Pandemics and climate change: responses to global challenges
8-11 September […]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Politics of Movement: Exploring Passage Points in Responses to COVID-19 and the Plague in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year agoAuthors: Janna Coomans, Claire Weeda
Abstract
Engaging the concepts of flow, circulation and blockage can help us to understand the trajectories of pandemics and the social responses to them. Central to the […]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Book Review: “Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets dans les campagnes de l’Occident médiéval et moderne” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year agoMarc Conesa, Nicolas Poirier (dir.), Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets dans les campagnes de l’Occident médiéval et moderne. Actes des XXXVIIIes Journées internationales d’histoire de l’abbay […]
Peyman Amiri edited the post Centring Race in History: Antiquity to the Present (online conference) in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago23-25 November 2020
Organised By:
International Centre on Racism, Edge Hill University, UK.
MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism magazine, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy (EUI).
Department of History & Civilization, EUI.
What should be the place of race in historiography and historical…[Read more]Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Flowing Together: A Workshop on Archaeological and Historical Approaches to Middle Eastern Water Management (7th-15th centuries) in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago12-13 November
Radboud Institute for Culture & History
This workshop aims to explore the various challenges, problems and potentials for collaboration between historians and archaeologists in the study of water […]- Load More
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