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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 12d

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

brill.com

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 12d

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 · 21d

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 · 20d

"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

www.unige.ch

Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 28d

“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.

theconversation.com

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 29d

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 ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jun 30

22 July: “Mercantile Cultures of Health". Massimo Sbarbaro discusses the “deep entanglement between commerce and medicine” between 12th-15th century Italy, as part of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance Online Lecture series. csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...

Mercantile Cultures of Health - CSMBR

Using sources like Pegolotti’s "Pratica della mercatura", Morelli’s "Ricordanze", and merchant 'zibaldoni', this lecture reveals a culture of health embedded in the practices of major trading houses. ...

csmbr.fondazionecomel.org

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jun 24

The History of Medicine in SE Asia meeting going well in Yoygakarta, Indonesia. Even getting coverage from UGM and in the press.
#histmed #histstm

Merekam Jejak Kesehatan di Asia Tenggara, UGM jadi Tuan Rumah HOMSEA ke-10 - Universitas Gadjah Mada

Universitas Gadjah Mada menjadi tuan rumah bagi gelaran The 10th International Conference on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) yang berlangsung pada 24-27 Juni 2025 di Gedung Soegondo...

ugm.ac.id

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jun 23

Keep an eye out for updates on the excavation in the Antas Valley to further understand the pollution legacies in Sardinia, over 700 years ago. A little longer than 50 years ;)

Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · Jun 23

Literature of preindustrial mining in Europe evidences long-term pollution impacts, from the loss of fish in nearby lakes and rivers (Falun copper mine) to the desertification of forests (Błędów Desert). But new tools allow us to better understand the depths of these impacts. #pxrf #envhist

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