Mastodon feed- Untitled February 4, 2025PhD #scholarship #opportunity in interdisciplinary approaches to infection biosciences: "Investigating Co-infections and Co-Morbidities in the Ancient World" under the BBSRC Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Award. Application closes 28/02.https://www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex-one-health-doctoral-landscape-award
- Untitled January 16, 2025One of our researchers, Megan Cassidy-Welch, has published a short piece on the health of pilgrims - please share! https://theconversation.com/fruit-and-veg-exercise-frequent-bloodletting-and-more-tips-on-staying-healthy-from-medieval-travellers-244638#histmed #pilgrim #healthhumanities
- Untitled December 5, 2024PhD scholarship opportunity: "Mining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary". PI Tina Asmussen is not only a great scholar, but a lovely person to work with -- we can attest! What a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the field with leading scholars + institution, Mining Museum Bochum.https://karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/0952d6d3e3f583fbd76eac1cb76e36bf9e032e2e0
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Yearly Archives: 2019
Book Review – The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Written by Claire Weeda Heng, Geraldine. The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Every discipline is in many intimate ways intimately connected to its object of study. In pre-modern historical sciences, the question of … Continue reading
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New Publication: Osteoarchaeology in Historical Context
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
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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New Article by Guy Geltner: “The Path to Pistoia: Urban Hygiene Before the Black Death”
Abstract: When the Black Death struck Western Europe in late 1347, city dwellers across the region were already practising public health, in part by building, maintaining and monitoring infrastructures whose prophylactic value emerged from the experience of intensified urbanization. The … Continue reading
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Postdoctoral Researcher GIS – Urban Archaeology of the Low Countries, 1200-1500
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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Marking and Badges: Exploring Premodern Schools, Discipline and Communal Health from a Global Perspective
A Report by Claire Weeda In June 2019, I hesitantly fastened my conference badge to my blouse in attendance of the conference ‘The Pursuit of Global Urban History’ in Leicester. How to address global commensurability, the impress of environment and … Continue reading
The MedHeal Seminar 2019: Public Health Development and Social Practice Patterns
Friday, September 20, 09:00–16:00. Trondheim, University Museum (Vitenskapsmuseet), Schøning House, 2nd floor, meeting room Hugin. Programme: 9.00-915: Axel Christophersen: Welcome, introduction to the MH seminar 2019: Task and expectations. A. Short reports from WP 1: Nutrition and environment 9.15 – 9.45: … Continue reading
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“Roads to Health” – Now Available from Penn Press
Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy G. Geltner 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth Aug 2019 | ISBN 9780812251357 A volume in the Middle Ages Series “G. Geltner’s Roads to Health … Continue reading
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The Kiln, the Alembic, and the Clockwork: Inside the CSMBR Summer School
A Report by Lola Digard The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) is an international institute of advanced studies belonging to the Fondazione Comel. Between the 29th and the 31st of March, the … Continue reading
CFP: Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World
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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