Knowledge Commons | Lucy Moloney | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/lucymoloney/activity/ Activity feed for Lucy Moloney. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:17:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4ed6d2b7f4db0aa5fa8abc1227c1e6f4 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Book Launch! / Public Health in the Premodern World in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1705 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:32:04 -0400 Please come along to our book launch of Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, published by Oxford University Press. Find the book at […]

]]> 9745836058ec308cfe7a55fd9dae35fd Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Conference Registration Open! / Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1701 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:28:00 -0400 Convener

Guy Geltner, Monash University

Keynote Speaker

Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University

This international and interdisciplinary conference brings to a close the activities of the grant team […]

]]> b0c3e665cc30f5855a8c1e2baa919f5a Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Call for Paper: Rethinking the Medical Knowledge of Pre-Modern Jews in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1697 Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:44:13 -0400 The Universidad de Granda is hosting an international conference in Granda 7-8 September 2026

Moving Beyond Prevailing Narratives: Rethinking the Medical Knowledge of Pre-Modern Jews at the Crossroads of […]

]]> 286856663e624b492337b517ffb68065 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post PhD Theses Award in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1695 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:52:30 -0400 The Santorio Award for Excellence in Research runs every two years and is designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science […]

]]> 680e2233c0b70e7ba2fe4a495c4f8893 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post NEW PUBLICATION: First nations knowledge on health in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1689 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:02:53 -0400 The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges; the eighth book in the series, by Shawana Andrews, Sandra Eades and Fiona Stanley and edited by Margo Ngawa Neale, focuses on […]

]]> 76715506765e601bbfd8c2adbea0a225 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Warning About Book Club Scams: in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1682 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:32:17 -0500 Our G. Geltner, sharing a few words of warning about a recent experience with publishing-related scams, which seems to be targeting academics, see: […]

]]> 5d0569ea71a45cc8d6cff11019fbb454 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Conference Announcement and New Pre-Print: History of Food and Medicine in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1680 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:31:15 -0500 The Colloquia Ceranea conference will take place in a hybrid format at the University of Łódź, Poland from 7-9 May.

The forthcoming symposium will be organized around the following thematic fo […]

]]> 308a3216112dc975e6f28c0c9b6d78cd Lucy Moloney edited the blog post NEW PUBLICATIONS // Investigations of Czech Skeletal Remains and Plague Policies in the Low Countries in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1672 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:03:29 -0500 ARTICLE: An study from investigations of the skeletal remains at Kutná Hora-Sedlec in Czechia.

"Influence of early life environment on later life mortality in catastrophic and non-catastrophic medieval […]

]]> 00d44aebc99bc629fe193b1d5cbb5562 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post PhD Studentships // The Early History of Smallpox and Measles in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1670 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:16:24 -0500 Galen, 'On Avoiding Distress'

Two PhD studentships are available for the Wellcome Discovery Project on the history of smallpox and measles at the University of Exeter; One is Classics/Ancient History facing […]

]]> 4bd1fab0f8cfd5a7f577264b253fec53 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post PUBLICATION // Public Health in the Premodern World in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1668 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:30:59 -0500 “Public Health in the Premodern World” edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is out now as an e-book!

The edited volume illustrates the rich history of public health, showing how com […]

]]> 615c45c6b53b3bef2ade92c573f1eea2 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Publications // Early Medieval Medicine in Context & Annotated bibliography on Byzantine medicine in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1664 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:22:28 -0500 "Early Medieval Medicine in Context: Transmission, Translation and Transformation" edited by Debby Banham, Claire Burridge, and Lea Olsan. This text is part of York Medieval Press’s series ‘Health and Hea […]

]]> 30d1373fce9134a311bb5232fee48567 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Conference Announcement / Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1656 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:52:43 -0500 Convener

Guy Geltner, Monash University

Keynote Speaker

Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University

Public health was a goal pursued by numerous societies prior to industrialised modernity. While […]

]]> 62230eff0db6298a516e30fab512acb4 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post New Book / Pensar los hospitales del mundo ibérico (ss. XIV-XVI) (History of Hospitals in Iberia) in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1653 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:10:44 -0500 New Book! Raúl Villagrasa-Elías'sbook Pensar los hospitales del mundo ibérico (ss. XIV-XVI). (History of Hospitals in Iberia) has been published by the Spanish National Research Council.

The book de […]

]]> c70eeb30a8a0754301f813292e1b4f26 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post CFP / Marburg Dialogues on Ancient Healing Arts in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1649 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:51:48 -0500 From the Institute of the History of Pharmacy and Medicine at Marburg University.

The Marburg Dialogues on Ancient Healing Arts is having their next annual meeting on June 19 and 20, 2026. Proposals are […]

]]> 6e77f28a7609fe460b93f368b0497662 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Book Preview Talk / Public Health in the Premodern World in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1643 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:31:58 -0500 "Public Health in the Premodern World" edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is coming out on the 29th with Oxford University Press!

The edited volume illustrates the rich history of […]

]]> c3792fe34d2003d66d6c944409f24fd7 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post New Volume / Medical Theory and Practice in Early Modern Italy in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1637 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:08:25 -0500 Sandra Cavallo and John Henderson's new edited volume is out now with Brepols, which explores the relationship between early modern Italian medical theory and practice. It is split across four themes: medical […]

]]> f7cd91026cdecc6fd463434730a30a4e Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Seminar Paper / Joschka Meier on Alpine Human-Animal Relations in the Late Middle Ages in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1633 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:25:17 -0500 We heard a wonderful paper by Joschka Meier talking to us about ‘Exploding Pigs & Retirement Homes For Cows: Alpine Human-Animal Relations in the Late Middle Ages’. The combined cow kindergarten/retirement hom […]

]]> fa1a62342fc4d25cdcdf160241606c5f Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Publication: "Bleeding Fingers and Failing Eyes: Occupational Health and the Manual Crafts of the Islamic Middle East" in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1628 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:38:12 -0500 Check out Marcus Milwright and Graham Rhodes' article "Bleeding Fingers and Failing Eyes: Occupational Health and the Manual Crafts of the Islamic Middle East" published in The Journal of Material Cultures in the […]

]]> 25b7b9258b604e1aa9fad9b931f13452 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post Dec 2025/ After ANZAMEMS "Possibilities" Conference in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1620 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:58:00 -0500 The team had a wonderful time at ANZAMEMS 2025. We had a great two panels on Public Health, and were far too busy having excellent talks afterwards to remember to get a group photo!

A particular […]

]]> 315fad47494ea9f1013c6c12fbca20c4 Lucy Moloney edited the blog post New Volume: Disability and War in the Late Middle Ages, eds. Ninon Dubourg and Christophe Masson in the group Premodern Healthscaping https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1616 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:38:45 -0500 Ninon Dubourg and Christophe Masson's edited volume, Disability and War in the Late Middle Ages: Becoming, Surviving, Managing, is out with the ARC Humanities Press. The volume gathers specialists across history, […]

]]>