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Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago“The path to Pistoia: Urban hygiene before the Black Death”
Now out in advance (and open) access on the Past& Present website:
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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 5 years 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]
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G. Geltner deposited In the Camp and on the March: Military Manuals as Sources for Studying Premodern Public Health on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
Historians 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]
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G. Geltner edited the post CfP to a session/s on “Premodern Public Health: Comparing Cities, 1250-1750” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoWe are delighted that a session we proposed for the European Association for Urban History Conference (Rome 29/8-1/9/2018) has been accepted. You can apply to submit papers for this session until 5/10/2017 (note the very early deadline). See the full details in the attached pdf.
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G. Geltner edited the post Reminder: CfP in panels on Premodern Public Health in 2018 ESUH conference in Rome in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoCfP to a session/s on “Premodern Public Health: Comparing Cities, 1250-1750”
Deadline is fast approachng: 5 October 2017
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G. Geltner edited the post Two postdoctoral positions in HealthScaping, University of Amsterdam in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoPostDoc in Low Countries urban history (later Middle Ages)
Postdoc in European medical-cultural history (later Middle Ages)
Application deadline 24 September 2017; jobs begin 1 February 2018
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G. Geltner edited the post Pre-modern Public Health @ The Medici Archives in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoAnother group of projects, directed by John Henderson, and exploring preventative practices in medieval and early modern Tuscany: http://www.medici.org/medicine-and-the-medici-in-grand-ducal-tuscany-research-program/
Enjoy!
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G. Geltner edited the post PhD positions in urban archaeology of health at NTNU University Museums in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoNTNU University Museums announces two PhD positions in urban archaeology/historical archaeology and iron age/Viking age archaeology specializing in archaeological human genetics (please follow the links below).
https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/134537
https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/134540
For…[Read more]
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G. Geltner edited the post Call for Papers: Historical Aspects of Preventive Healthcare in Germany and Poland (Hamburg, 12-14 July, 2017) in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoFrom our colleague Fritz Dross (abstracts due 1 April 2017).
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G. Geltner edited the post ERC Consolidator grant for “Healthscaping Urban Europe: Biopower, Space and Society, 1200-1500” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoWe are delighted to announce the award of an ERC Consolidator Grant for HealthScaping, a multidisciplinary framework for developing the field of premodern public health. Here is the gist of the project, which will formally kick off on 1 September 2017:
Medieval cities are often imaged as demographic black holes, environmental accidents waiting…[Read more]
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G. Geltner deposited Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThis is a preprint version of my forthcoming book, to be published by Pennsylvania University Press
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G. Geltner deposited Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
This is a preprint version of my forthcoming book, to be published by Pennsylvania University Press
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G. Geltner uploaded the file: Black Death and Public Health teaching module for undergraduates to
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe present module introduces advanced undergraduates to the events known as the Black Death (1347-1352) and situates them in the broader culture of medieval public health or premodern prophylactics. It is divided into two teaching units of equal length and interchangeable order: premodern public health theory, policy and practice can operate as…[Read more]
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G. Geltner deleted the file: Bibliography of premodern public health (eds. Coomans and Geltner; updated 10 September 2017) from
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G. Geltner created the event Birmingham Centre for the Study of the MIddle Ages in the group Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
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G. Geltner deleted the file: Bibliography of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies from
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