Category Archives: Publications

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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New Publication – The healthscaping approach: Toward a global history of early public health

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Peyman Amiri

Geltner, G. and Janna Coomans. “The Healthscaping Approach: Toward a Global History of Early Public Health.” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. This article presents a modular, multidisciplinary methodology for tracing how different communities in the deeper … Continue reading →

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Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoppenbrouwers

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Peyman Amiri

Editors: Claire Weeda, Robert Stein, and Louis Sicking Book series: CORN Publication Series, 20 Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022 Abstract: Who had a say in making decisions about the natural world, when, how and to what end? How were rights to … Continue reading →

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Rural Policing in the Long Trecento: An Urban Project and Its Obstruction

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Peyman Amiri

Guy Geltner Abstract: The intricacies of urban–rural relations surface with rare detail from the records of Italian field wardens (campari) from the late thirteenth to the mid-fifteenth century. Focusing on the region of Piedmont, in the peninsula’s north-west, this article … Continue reading →

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Interview with Claire Weeda about her new book “Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion”

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On Crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other’s military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court … Continue reading →

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Urban health in the Middle Ages and Today: Changing Community Politics and Environments

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

Janna Coomans Through vaccination campaigns and lifting restrictions, authorities across the globe are promoting the idea of a return to normal, yet which form the ‘end’ of the COVID pandemic will take is uncertain. There may be celebrations and post-war-like … Continue reading →

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Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

Claire Weeda On 26 March 1215, the brash Bolognese rhetorician Boncompagno da Signa read aloud his manual of rhetoric, Rhetorica antiqua,in front of the college of professors of civil and canon law. If some of his students had nodded off … Continue reading →

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Kinetic health: Ecologies and mobilities of prevention in Europe, c. 1100-1600

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

G. Geltner ABSTRACT: This article coins and deploys the term kinetic health as part of a broader attempt to historicize the mobilities paradigm from the standpoint of past community prophylactics. It uses the example of Galenic or humoral medicine, which for … 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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Underground and Over the Sea: More Community Prophylactics in Europe, 1100-1600

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

By Guy Geltner and Claire Weeda Abstract: Public health historians have repeatedly shown that the theory, policy, and practice of group prophylactics far predate their alleged birth in industrial modernity, and regularly draw on Galenic principles. While the revision overall has … Continue reading →

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