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 wrote a new post Medieval Round Table: The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days 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 1 month 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 3 months, 1 week 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 3 months, 2 weeks 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 3 months, 3 weeks 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 4 months 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 5 months 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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 months, 2 weeks 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 9 months, 1 week 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, […] -
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Premodern Healthscaping at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago22 April 2022
Saratoga Springs, New York
Premodern Healthscaping team presents at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Saratoga Springs, New York. The presentation […] -
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Rural Policing in the Long Trecento: An Urban Project and Its Obstruction in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoGuy Geltner
Abstract: The intricacies of urban–rural relations surface with rare detail from the records of Italian field wardens (campari) from the late thirteenth to the mid-fifteenth century. Focusing on the r […] -
Peyman Amiri edited the post PhD Position: Preventative Medicine and the Medici Court, 1530-1737 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoProject description:
This PhD scholarship is an important part of the ARC-funded project “Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800,” led by Prof. G. Geltner.
The team project will reco […]
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Peyman Amiri wrote a new post The Disruptive Power of Pandemics in Public Health History – Guy Geltner in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoOnline Public Lecture
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 09:45-11:00 (CEST)
Talk by Professor Guy Geltner (Monash University) on some of the global implications of his team’s revision of “premodern” public hea […] -
Peyman Amiri edited the post Health, Environment and Urban Development in the Middle Ages in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago17-18 February 2022Norwegian University of Science and technology, University Museum, Trondheim
The conference completes the Norwegian Research Council funded project “Medieval urban health: from private to pu […]
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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 1 year 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 […]
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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 year, 2 months 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 […]
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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 1 year, 5 months 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 1 year, 5 months 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 1 year, 5 months 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 […]
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