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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Book Preview Talk / Public Health in the Premodern World
“Public Health in the Premodern World” edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is coming out on the 29th with Oxford University Press! The edited volume illustrates the rich history of public health, showing how communities across the … Continue reading
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Seminar Paper / Joschka Meier on Alpine Human-Animal Relations in the Late Middle Ages
We heard a wonderful paper by Joschka Meier talking to us about ‘Exploding Pigs & Retirement Homes For Cows: Alpine Human-Animal Relations in the Late Middle Ages’. The combined cow kindergarten/retirement home was a particularly nice note to learn about … Continue reading
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December 2025/ ANZAMEMS Conference: “Possibilities”
Next week several of our team members will be presenting at the annual conference for ANZAMEMS or the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. See the programme here. See below for details of our researchers’ papers, which will be presented across three panels. Presenters include both chief investigators of the ARC-funded Discovery Projecy Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World 1100-1800, and their former and current students. Continue reading
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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