Premodern Healthscaping
@prosanitate.bsky.social
We study public & environmental health in the pre-industrial world(s) from multiple disciplines. Our current foci are miners, pilgrims, courts & cities. Share your work on community prophylactics with us: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1403
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
#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…
ancientbaths.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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
#waterhistory #middleeast #histmed
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
#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
www.brepolsonline.net
October 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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
#mobilities #publichealth #urbanhistory #legalhistory
"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
www.unige.ch/sciences/bio...
#histmed #materiality #bskyhistory #medmed
Conference - Section of Biology - UNIGE
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September 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"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
www.unige.ch/sciences/bio...
#histmed #materiality #bskyhistory #medmed
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/...
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
July 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
So happy to see this work amplified!
July 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
So happy to see this work amplified!