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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 1h

24 October in Leiden: Guy Geltner will be presenting "(Under)mining Preindustrial Europe: Ecology, Society and Culture, 1180-1550 CE" as part of the seminar series Medieval and Early Modern History.

#medieval #earlymodern #mininghistory #envhist #ecology

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025

The Research Seminars Medieval and Early Modern History are informal and intended to foster discussion.

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 2h

"The Medieval in Museums": Fran Allfrey (University of York) and Maia Blumberg are calling for contributions to a proposed edited volume discussing the ways in which the "medieval" appears in a range of GLAM institutions.

Info:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#medieval #heritagestudies #GLAM

MiM_FOR CIRCULATION

The Medieval in Museums: call for contributions We invite short abstracts (100-200 words) in response to our call for chapters for an edited volume, ‘The Medieval in Museums’. Please send abstracts b...

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 3d

Read more about each episode in the podcast series "Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East", published by the Abbasid History Podcast: ancientbaths.com/2024/05/03/p..., and listen on Spotify or Youtube: open.spotify.com/show/15MitRP...

#waterhistory #middleeast #histmed

Podcast ‘Source of Life’

The podcast “Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East” presents some of the results of an NWO Vici research project (2019-2025) at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History…

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 3d

Tune in to the podcast series, "Source of Life", discussing the histories of water management in the premodern Middle East. Consisting of 8 episodes, the podcasts discuss, among other things, bathhouses, drinking water, aqueducts, and toilets. Produced by the Abbasid History Podcast. #waterhistory

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 7d

An interview about our fieldwork in Sardinia was broadcast on SBS Italiano (in Italian) here in Australia: www.sbs.com.au/language/ita...

#communityradio #historyofmining

Dall'Australia alla Sardegna, alla ricerca della miniera perduta

Il professore Guy Geltner ha partecipato ad un progetto di ricerca in Sardegna che mischia lavoro storico, sociale e quasi da detective alla riscoperta del passato ormai perduto dei minatori medioeval...

www.sbs.com.au

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 10d

Weeda also writes that "the flow was never free": the city's metabolism was a regulated, policed, and built system, upholding bottlenecks that controlled/ restricted movement, and reinforcing inequalities. www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/...

#mobilities #publichealth #urbanhistory #legalhistory

The Porous City: Dealing with Public Health Crises in Fifteenth-Century Sint-Truiden | Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 10d

In "The Porous City" Claire Weeda discusses the "metabolism" of the 15th century city Sint-Truiden. She describes the circulation (or blockage thereof) of materials and people in and out of "porous" city, as a means of urban and population #publichealth management.
#OpenAccess #medmed #mobilities

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 16d

Open Access article on water management in medieval Trondheim, Norway, by Elisabeth Forrestad Swensen, Roos M.R. van Oosten, & Axel Christophersen:
brill.com/view/journal...

#watermanagement #waterhistory #disease #urbaninfrastructure #publichealth #archaeology

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 16d

Application Deadline approaching for University of Melbourne post-doc opening: "Amplifying the Voices of Disabled Women and Gender Diverse People in Obstetric Care". unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex...

#postdoc #disabilitystudies #publichealth @unimelb.bsky.social

Research Fellow - Disability Rights, Gender, Reproductive Health

Role type: Part-Time (0.8 FTE); Fixed term for 12 months Faculty: Melbourne Law School Salary: Level A.6 - $108,156 p.a. plus 17% super Lead impactful socio-legal research and influence healthcare pol...

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 25d

Does your teaching touch upon the Black Death? Then don't miss the one and only Dr. Monica Green's open-access, introductory teaching module for the History for the 21st Century (H21) project! www.history21.com/owit-module/... #earlymodern #histmed #medhumanities #medieval #worldhistory

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 25d

"Protecting Bodies at Work: Technical Devices, Materialities of Health, and Political Imaginaries." Click on the link below 👇to see the full programme and Zoom access for participation, today and tomorrow:
www.unige.ch/sciences/bio...

#histmed #materiality #bskyhistory #medmed

Conference - Section of Biology - UNIGE

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 25d

Today and tomorrow: "Protecting Bodies at Work", University of Geneva. Online attendance available (4:30pm start in Australia). Papers discuss occupational hazards; child labour and colonial era work/ worker's bodies; clothing, protective gear, & garlic.

#histmed #bodystudies #materiality

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Sep 10

“What the Portuguese Inquisitor labelled feitiços (witchcraft or charms) was, for Mónica and her community, simply aduro (medicine) and amammerɛ (custom)."

Jessica O'Leary writes about the distortion of #indigenous medical knowledge in colonial Ghana. #histmed

theconversation.com/monicas-stor...

Mónica’s story: the woman shipped from Ghana to Portugal in 1556 to stand trial for using traditional medicine

Colonialism criminalised local knowledge systems.

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Sep 9

Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages, invites abstract submissions for an IMC Leeds 2026 panel, "Time to Heal: Temporalities in Care and Cure", to explore the myriad ways in which time and health intermingled. Due 20/9.

#histmed #imcleeds #medmed @medica.bsky.social

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine is organising a MINESCAPES working group. Convened by @tinasmussen.bsky.social and others. Details, membership, and participation here: www.chstm.org/group/minesc...

#mininghistory #envhist #minescapes #extraction

Minescapes | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

www.chstm.org

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Aug 6

Baylor University is seeking a new Assistant Professor in global Medieval History (tenure-track). Preferably someone whose work engages in the history of science, medicine, & technology. See details here: apply.interfolio.com/169126

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jul 26

Dr Burrell's thesis is freely available online. For a shorter read, check out her most recent article, "Treating Pox, Pests and Worms: Saints, Sympathy and Materiality in Late-Medieval English Charms," published Open Access in the Journal of Religious History.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Treating Pox, Pests and Worms: Saints, Sympathy and Materiality in Late‐Medieval English Charms

Charms were a commonplace form of medical intervention in late-medieval England, as they allowed afflicted and ailing devotees to seek the aid of saints and biblical figures. Those holy dead who had ....

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jul 26

Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth (Libby) Burrell, the 2025 recipient of the AHA Philippa Hetherington Prize, for her PhD thesis, "Words for Wellbeing: Charms, Caregiving and Health in England, 1300–1550." The prize is awarded to the best postgraduate thesis in General History (excluding Aus hist).

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jul 25

Recordings of all sessions in our conference last month, "Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspectives", are now available. See our blog post for more information:

premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1479

#unani #histmed #mughal #healthhumanities

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congratulations to Meg Leja for her public history work as well as her #histmed and #medmed scholarship, bringing "light" to the so-called "dark ages" and medieval healthcare as understood in popular culture. One step (or trend-worthy cure...) at a time!
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our latest collaboration with the journal Speculum is out now! #speculumspotlight 💡

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jul 17

So happy to see this work amplified!

Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jul 13

More photos of our excavation in Antas Valley, Sardinia, to explore the environmental and material impacts of medieval manual mining: Giovanna Bianchi, Nicolas Minvielle Larousse and Luisa Dallai standing at end of a trench, hard at work watching Sarah Laurent. Preparing the groundwork!

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jul 8

Just published! Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World Images, Objects, and Remains, edited by Lori Jones, covers chapters on premodern health and materiality across the world, from Japan and China, to Portugal and Spain.

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jul 4

Currently underway in Antas Valley, Sardinia: excavations and fieldwork to explore the material and geochemical legacies of manual mining in the 12th-14th centuries. Here: Prof Guy Geltner and A/Prof Giovanna Bianchi carrying equipment for the dig.
@monashuniversity.bsky.social #pxrf #archaeology

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