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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 7 months, 1 week 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 7 months, 2 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.
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Peyman Amiri edited the post Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks 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 8 months, 3 weeks ago26 September 2022, 09:00-18:00
Università di Bologna (Aula 3, via Azzo Gardino 33 complesso Unione)
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Peyman Amiri edited the post Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months 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 […] -
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 1 year 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 2 months 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 1 year, 2 months 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 1 year, 3 months 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, 4 months 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, 6 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 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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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 1 year, 10 months 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)
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Peyman Amiri edited the post Approaches to Life and Health in Medieval Cities – Online Workshop in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 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]
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Peyman Amiri edited the post The dynamics of healthscaping: Mapping communal hygiene in Bologna, 1287–1383 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 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 2 years 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 […]
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