ReMeDHe
@remedhe.bsky.social
The working group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity! Also for ancientists, medievalists interested in medical history in the greater Mediterranean premodern. Dr. Molly Jones-Lewis & @taramulder.bsky.social
ReMeDHe's first job market workshop will be July 18 at 8 am PST/11 am Eastern time. Our first forty-five minutes will be spent with our panel answering the most common questions sent in beforehand.
June 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
ReMeDHe's first job market workshop will be July 18 at 8 am PST/11 am Eastern time. Our first forty-five minutes will be spent with our panel answering the most common questions sent in beforehand.
Kassandra Miller's book "Time and Ancient Medicine" has won the Goodwin Prize!(https://www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/charles-j-goodwin-award-merit)
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February 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Kassandra Miller's book "Time and Ancient Medicine" has won the Goodwin Prize!(https://www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/charles-j-goodwin-award-merit)
Colin Webster's book "Tools and the Organism" has won the Goodwin Prize!(https://www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/charles-j-goodwin-award-merit)
Tools and the Organism
The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations. Medicine is itself a type of technology,…
press.uchicago.edu
February 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Colin Webster's book "Tools and the Organism" has won the Goodwin Prize!(https://www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/charles-j-goodwin-award-merit)
Jennifer Regan Borland has won the The Karen Gould Prize in Art History (https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldPrize) for "Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps"
Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps By Jennifer Borland
In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this…
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February 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Jennifer Regan Borland has won the The Karen Gould Prize in Art History (https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldPrize) for "Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps"
Janna Coomans has won the John Nicholas Brown prize (https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Brown_Prize) for her book "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries."
Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
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February 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Janna Coomans has won the John Nicholas Brown prize (https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Brown_Prize) for her book "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries."
In @science.org Tara Mulder writes that Helen King's "Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts" is "a masterful achievement born from an impressive and influential career."
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu3681
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu3681
Immaculate Forms
“Never has medical history been more entertaining” (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women’s bodies fr...
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February 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In @science.org Tara Mulder writes that Helen King's "Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts" is "a masterful achievement born from an impressive and influential career."
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu3681
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu3681
Shout outs in Pasts Imperfect:
Monica H. Green & Nahyan Fancy, “Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al"
Sofía Torallas Tovar, “Compilers of Magic: Greco-Egyptian Magical Handbooks through the Eyes of Their Scribes"
Monica H. Green & Nahyan Fancy, “Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al"
Sofía Torallas Tovar, “Compilers of Magic: Greco-Egyptian Magical Handbooks through the Eyes of Their Scribes"
Pasts Imperfect (2.20.25)
Ancient and Modern Immigration, Amazonian "Garden Cities," Cuneiform School Exercises, Greco-Egyptian Scribes Penning Magical Handbooks, and Much More
pastsimperfect.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Shout outs in Pasts Imperfect:
Monica H. Green & Nahyan Fancy, “Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al"
Sofía Torallas Tovar, “Compilers of Magic: Greco-Egyptian Magical Handbooks through the Eyes of Their Scribes"
Monica H. Green & Nahyan Fancy, “Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al"
Sofía Torallas Tovar, “Compilers of Magic: Greco-Egyptian Magical Handbooks through the Eyes of Their Scribes"
Help us at ReMeDHe plan our summer job market workshop! forms.gle/Nv4NqMBE1a3v...
ReMeDHe job market workshop planning
ReMeDHe will be hosting a job market workshop this summer! We'd love both your questions and your answers. Your questions will help drive our workshop, and the answers you give here will be hosted in ...
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February 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Help us at ReMeDHe plan our summer job market workshop! forms.gle/Nv4NqMBE1a3v...
Remember to nominate an article on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean for the Heidi Marx Prize!
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
The Heidi Marx Prize | ReMeDHe
Working Group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health, and Healing in Late Antiquity
www.remedhe.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Remember to nominate an article on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean for the Heidi Marx Prize!
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
A reminder about the ReMeDHe book series with Routledge (Religion, Medicine and Health in Late Antiquity). Check it out and, if you're working on something you think might be a good fit, please do get in touch!
Religion, Medicine and Health in Late Antiquity - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press
Routledge & CRC Press Series: This series explores the intersections and interactions of religion, medicine, and health in late antiquity. Our aim is to give attention to the diversity of he
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February 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A reminder about the ReMeDHe book series with Routledge (Religion, Medicine and Health in Late Antiquity). Check it out and, if you're working on something you think might be a good fit, please do get in touch!
Nominate an article on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean for the Heidi Marx Prize!
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
The Heidi Marx Prize | ReMeDHe
www.remedhe.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Nominate an article on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean for the Heidi Marx Prize!
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
- published any time in the last 3 years
- in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025)
- self-nominations welcome
- $250 in books of your choice
- nominations due March 1
January 12, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Too Complex to Explain?
Poisons, Antidotes,
and Emergent Properties
in the Early Modern Period
Andreas Blank
23 January 2024 – 5 PM (CET)
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
Poisons, Antidotes,
and Emergent Properties
in the Early Modern Period
Andreas Blank
23 January 2024 – 5 PM (CET)
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
January 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Too Complex to Explain?
Poisons, Antidotes,
and Emergent Properties
in the Early Modern Period
Andreas Blank
23 January 2024 – 5 PM (CET)
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
Poisons, Antidotes,
and Emergent Properties
in the Early Modern Period
Andreas Blank
23 January 2024 – 5 PM (CET)
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
We exist here now too!
September 29, 2023 at 8:21 PM
We exist here now too!