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Premodern Healthscaping
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New Exhibition at the San Silvestro Archaeological Mining Park, showcasing new research done under the direction of Professor Giovanna Bianchi, one of the archaeologists in our team!
Check out some photos of PhD student Andrea Tommolini's work on the zoology showcase.
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CFP: workshop on "Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World”. 4–6 February 2027 at the University of Bologna.
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CFP: "Healing in Anatolian Culture," to be held at Cappadocia University in Mustafapaşa, Cappadocia (Türkiye), on 24–26 September 2026.
Abstracts due 15 June 2026.
sifainanatolia.kapadokya.edu.tr/en/home-page/
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Recent publication: Susan L. Einbinder's edition and translation, "A Jewish Physician’s Response to the Black Death: Abraham Caslari’s "Tractate on Pestilential Fevers and Fever Types."
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270397...
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Check out Katherine Harvey's (@katherineharvey.bsky.social) recently published 'The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' which explores the way that medieval people looked over their physical and mental health.
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-med...
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CFP: VivaMente Conference in the History of Ideas: Deafness in the Premodern Mediterranean, 17 - 18 November 2026.
The deadline for submission is 10 September 2026.
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/vivam...
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New publication: Guillet Philippe "L'Anathomia ricardius Anglicus" discussing the treatise which appears to be the first comprehensive synthesis of Constantine the African’s Pantegni, organized according to Galen’s classification of the major organs as described in the Tegni.
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Want to know how medieval people thought about health? Check out this podcast by Katherine Harvey!
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Recent publication: Abigail Agresta in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social "Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon"
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Premodern Healthscaping
February 04-06, 2027
SCARCE Workshop
University of Bologna
Deadline for Submission: July 10th 2026
This VivaMente conference explores deafness and the figure of the deaf person in the Mediterranean Antiquity and premodern ages through historical, medical, and socio-cultural perspectives.
Abraham Caslari was a Jewish physician in Catalonia, where he and his family found refuge after the great expulsion of French Jews in 1306. In 1348, he was a...
We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living reveals a far richer story. Long before modern wellness trends, people in the Midd...
Abstract. Starting in the fifteenth century, European city governments began to respond to the threat of plague by introducing quarantine measures, which p
This is next week! Come along!
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Premodern Healthscaping
Please come along to our book launch in Oxford of Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim @yoelitlalim.bsky.social published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
