Mastodon feed- Untitled May 29, 2026Check out Katherine Harvey's (@katherineharvey.bsky.social) recently published 'The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' which explores the way that medieval people looked over their physical and mental health. https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-medieval-guide-to-healthy-living#histmed #histstm
- Untitled May 1, 2026Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls CollegeFor remote attendance, email medhistsem@history.ox.ac.uk #histmed #histstm
- Untitled April 27, 2026Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online! The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globeacademic.oup.com/book/62595#histmed #histstm
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Category Archives: Announcements
Kick-off Event: SCARCE Research Project
SCARCE (Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe, 1550-1850) is a new five-year project at the University of Vienna. It aims to provide a history of today’s stakeholder conflicts by showing how contradictory principles of resource management … Continue reading
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August 2024/ Luisa Dallai et al.: “From lab to field, from vertical to horizontal. New approaches to the use of portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) in archaeology”
This year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA2024) takes place in Rome. One of our dear colleagues, Luisa Dallai, will be presenting on the use of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) in archaeology. Her and her colleagues’ abstract … Continue reading
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MINESCAPES Summer School for PhD Students: Call for Applications
MINESCAPES: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Call for Applications 2024 PhD Summer School – MINESCAPES. Application Deadline: 15 January 2024 Summer School Dates: 31 May – 10 June 2024 Conveners: … Continue reading
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Virtual Book Launch: Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
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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