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New project: Mining Activities, Public Health Strategies and Pollution Legacies in Europe, 1200-1600

Posted on March 20, 2023 by Sarah May

We are excited to announce we have received funding from Monash Arts Faculty for a Health and Medical Research Accelerator project on preindustrial public health. This research project builds on the work done in our two (previous/ current) projects, Healthscaping … Continue reading →

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Lecture: Supplying the slave trade in 10th-century Prague

Posted on February 13, 2023 by Sarah May

Lola Digard, member of our previous research project, Healthscaping Premodern Europe, will be in discussion with Jane Fontaine tomorrow. Dr Fontaine’s lecture focuses on the role of the Prague market in the trade of enslaved people. 14 February 2023, 3.30pm EST … Continue reading →

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Medieval Round Table: The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe

Posted on January 26, 2023 by Sarah May

Guy Geltner will be presenting at The University of Melbourne’s Medieval Round Table discussion group on 6 February 2023. The Round Table is an informal forum that meets monthly, usually on the first Monday of the month, to discuss works … Continue reading →

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Virtual Book Launch: Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Posted on January 3, 2023 by Sarah May

13 January 2023, 12pm EST/ 6pm CET/ 10.30pm IST/ 4am + 1 AEDT Online, zoom Begin the new year with a virtual book launch for the fourth title in the “Health and Healing in the Middle Ages” series by publishers … Continue reading →

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New Article: Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent

Posted on October 25, 2022 by Peyman Amiri

Coomans, J., & Hermenault, L. (2022). Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent. Journal of Urban History This article argues that medieval urban authorities developed nodal spatial strategies to mitigate various risks—from accidents, floods, and military vulnerability … Continue reading →

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The dynamics of healthscaping: Mapping communal hygiene in Bologna, 1287–1383

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

Taylor Zaneri & G. Geltner Abstract: This article traces how urban communities operating with a humoral or Galenic medical paradigm understood and confronted the health challenges facing them, using the extraordinarily well-documented case of Bologna, Italy. Working within a GIS environment, … Continue reading →

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