2024
[forthcoming] G. Geltner, “Preventative Healthcare among Miners in Europe, 1200-1550.” In Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World, ed. G. Geltner, J. Coomans & R. Yoeli-Tlalim. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
You can find the AAM on BodoArXiv here.
Minvielle Larousse, N., E. Brodie, G. Geltner, H. Gopnik, F. Sanna, & C. Tomczyk, “Prospections géochimiques dans la vallée d’Antas (Sardaigne).” Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger (2024) [in French]
You can find this Open Access article here.
Geltner, G., “Public Health in Preindustrial Europe: Urban and Rural Practices.” Medicina nei secoli: Journal of History of Medicine and Medical Humanities 36, no. 1 (2024): pp. 27-38.
You can find this Open Access article here.
Coomans, J. & B. Marschall, “Miracles and Misadventures: Childhood and Public Health in the Late Medieval Low Countries.” Journal of Medieval History 50, no. 2 (2024): pp. 163-89.
You can find the article here.
2023
Geltner, G., “Ecological Impacts and Environmental Perceptions of Mining in Europe, 1200-1550: Preliminary Notes.” Parergon 40, no. 1 (2023): pp. 157-80.
You can find the article here, and the AAM here.
Zaneri, T. & R. Smurra, “Public Health, Artisanal Activities, Daily Life in Medieval Bologna: Digital Projects as Teaching Tools for Urban History.” In Research and Education in Urban History in the Age of Digital Libraries, ed. S. Münster, A. Pattee, C. Kröber & F. Niebling, pp. 246-58. (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023).
You can find the article here.
Zaneri, T., “The spatial logic of health: Managing waste, water and infrastructure in later medieval Bologna.” Journal of Historical Geography 81 (2023): pp. 97-109.
You can find the article here.
Geltner, G. & G. Roberts, “Social and Environmental Policing in Medieval Cities.” in A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ages: A Handbook, ed. H. Skoda, pp. 258-74. (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2023).
Link to pdf here.
Geltner, G., “Mine Air Makes Free? Rural Liberty, Materiality,
and Agency in Europe’s Long Thirteenth Century.” Journal of Social History 57, no. 1 (2023): pp. 1-23.
You can read this Open Access article here.
2022
Coomans, J. & L. Hermenault, “Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent.” Journal of Urban History 0, no. 0 (2022).
You can read this Open Access article here.
Geltner, G. & J. Coomans, “The Healthscaping Approach: Toward a Global History of Early Public Health.” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 56, no. 1 (2022): pp. 18-33.
You can read this Open Access article here.
Weeda, C., R. Stein & L. Sicking, Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoppenbrouwers. (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022).
You can read this Open Access book here.
Geltner, G., “Rural Policing in the Long Trecento: An Urban Project and Its Obstruction.” The English Historical Review 137, no. 584 (2022): pp. 47-79.
You can read this Open Access article here.
Zaneri, T. & G. Geltner, “The Dynamics of Healthscaping: Mapping Communal Hygiene in Bologna, 1287–1383.” Urban History 49, no. 1 (2022): pp. 2–27.
You can read this Open Access article here.
2021
Coomans, J., Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
This book is published by Cambridge University Press.
Weeda, C., Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion. (Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2021).
This book is published by Boydell & Brewer.
Geltner, G., “Kinetic Health: Ecologies and Mobilities of Prevention in Europe, c. 1100-1600.” Mobilities 16, no.4 (2021): pp. 553-568.
You can read this Open Access article here.
Geltner, G. & C. Weeda, “Underground and Over the Sea: More Community Prophylactics in Europe, 1100-1600.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 76, no. 2 (2021), pp. 123–146.
You can read this Open Access article here.
2020
Coomans, J. & C. Weeda, “Politics of Movement: Exploring Passage Points in Responses to COVID-19 and the Plague in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands.” Journal for the History of Environment and Society 5 (2020): pp. 79-89.
You can read this Open Access article here.
Geltner, G., review of Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets dans les campagnes de l’Occident médiéval et moderne, ed. M. Conesa & N. Poirier. Francia-Recensio 4 (2020). https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2020.4.77183
You can read the full review here.
Geltner, G., C. Weeda & J. Coomans, “Mapping Health in the Middle Ages,” EU Research SPR20 (2020).
You can read more here.
Geltner, G., “The Path to Pistoia: Urban Hygiene Before the Black Death.” Past & Present 246, no. 1 (2020): pp. 3-33.
Open Access through Past & Present.
2019
Rawcliffe, C. & C. Weeda, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019).
This book is published by Amsterdam University Press.
Geltner, G., “In the Camp and on the March: Military Manuals as Sources for Studying Premodern Public Health.” Medical History 63, no. 1 (2019): pp. 44–60.
Open Access through Cambridge University Press.
Geltner, G., Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).
This book is published by University of Pennnsylvania Press.
Coomans, J., “The King of Dirt: Public Health and Sanitation in Late Medieval Ghent.” Urban History 46, no. 1 (2019), pp. 82–105.
Open Access through Cambridge University Press.
2018
Weeda, C., “Reviewing Conduct Books: Galenic Medicine and the ‘Civilising Process’ in Western European Households c.1100–1300.” In The Elite Household in England, 1100-1550: Proceedings of the 2016 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. C.M. Woolgar, pp. 167-184. (Donington, 2018).
Geltner, G., “Public Health,” in A Companion to Medieval Bologna, ed. S.R. Blanshei, pp. 103-28. (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
You can download the pdf here.
Earlier Publications
Geltner, G., “Finding Matter out of Place: Bologna’s ‘Dirt’ (Fango) Officials in the History of Premodern Public Health.” in The Far-Sighted Gaze of Capital Cities. Essays in Honor of Francesca Bocchi, ed. R. Smurra, H. Houben & M. Ghizzoni, pp. 307-21. (Rome: Viella, 2014).
You can download the pdf here.
Geltner, G., “Healthscaping a Medieval City: The Curia viarum of Lucca and the Future of Public Health History.” Urban History 40 (2013): pp. 395-415.
You can download the pdf here.
Coomans, J., and G. Geltner, “On the Street and in the Bath-House: Medieval Galenism in Action?” Anuario de Estudios Medievales 43 (2013): pp. 53-8.
You can download the pdf here.
Geltner, G., “Public Health and the Pre-Modern City: A Research Agenda.” History Compass 10 (2012): pp. 231-45.
You can download the pdf here.
