Category Archives: Announcements

Roads to Health wins AAIS Book Awards in Medieval Studies

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press) wins American Association for Italian Studies Book Awards in Medieval Studies for 2019. In this book, Guy Geltner “proposes to examine public health from an … Continue reading →

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Historical Parallels between the Black Death/Second Plague Pandemic and the Current Coronavirus Crisis

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

Janna Coomans discussed the historical parallels between the Black Death/Second Plague Pandemic and the current Coronavirus crisis on Radio 1 (Sunday 22 March) and in a recent blog post, (both in Dutch). They can be found here: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/luister/afleveringen/2020/22-03-2020.html# https://www.historici.nl/pest-in-tijden-van-corona/?type=bijdrage

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Janna Coomans Won the 2019 Pro Civitate Award of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

Janna Commans, a member of the Premodern Healthscaping Project, has won the prestigious Pro Civitate award of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts for her doctoral thesis In Pursuit of a Healthy City: Sanitation and the … Continue reading →

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New Publication: Osteoarchaeology in Historical Context

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

Osteoarchaeology in Historical Context: Cemetery Research from the Low Countries Edited by Roos van Oosten, Rachel Schats & Kerry Fast Osteoarchaeology is a rich field for reconstructing past lives in that it can provide details on sex, age-at-death, stature, and … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Historical Questions – Zooarchaeological Answers

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

Historical Zooarchaeology: New Perspectives on Combining History, Archaeology, and Zooarchaeology Thursday, December 12,  09:30–17:30. University of Amsterdam. This is the second joint workshop co-organized by the University of Amsterdam and the University of Groningen exploring new developments in method and … Continue reading →

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Postdoctoral Researcher GIS – Urban Archaeology of the Low Countries, 1200-1500

Posted on September 30, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

Project description The postdoctoral researcher’s main project entails the collection of diverse data on preventative and curative health programs and indicators for their material impact in several Netherlandish cities, culminating in the construction of a health map concerning one of these … Continue reading →

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CFP: Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

Call for Papers: Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World 19–21 March 2020 Maynooth University, Ireland This interdisciplinary conference, jointly funded by the Irish Research Council and the British Academy, explores the reception and transmission of medical knowledge between and … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming: “Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe” Edited by Claire Weeda & Carole Rawcliffe

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many … Continue reading →

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Of Cesspits and Sewers – Will Hunt

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Peyman Amiri

Exploring the unlikely history of sanitation management in medieval Holland By Will Hunt “On a balmy July afternoon, archaeologist Roos van Oosten strides through a muddied plot of land near the center of the Dutch city of Leiden and takes … Continue reading →

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Postdoctoral Position: ‘Townscape and Healthscape: Mapping the Sanitary City in Italy’

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Peyman Amiri

Project and job description HealthScaping seeks to trace the development and impact of preventative healthcare policies, medical discourses and social and religious action in the continent’s two most urbanized and richly documented regions in the later Middle Ages, Italy and … Continue reading →

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