2026
Geltner, G., “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)
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2025
Digard, L., “Forensic Knowledge, Labour, and the Medical Market in the Peace Procedures of Ghent, 1350–1400.” Journal of Medieval History, pp. 1-29. 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2025.2573385
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Coomans, J., “Urban Environmental History.” In A Companion to Global Environmental History, 2nd ed., ed. J. R. McNeill & E. S. Mauldin, pp. 412-26. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2025).
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Minvielle Larousse, N., E. Brodie, G. Geltner, H. Gopnik, F. Sanna, & C. Tomczyk, “A geochemical survey of the Antas Valley, Sardinia: Medieval metallurgy and modern slag recycling?” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 64 (2025): 105114.
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2024
Bianchi, G., G. Geltner, V. Aniceti, M. Buonincontri, L. Dallai, A. Tommolini, S. Viva, & V. Volpi, “A Return to Rocca San Silvestro: Community Health, Safety and Resilience in a Medieval Mining Village.” Archeologia Medievale LI (2024): pp. 57-86.
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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]
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Coomans, J. & L. Hermenault, “Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent.” Journal of Urban History 50, no. 5 (2024): 1018-1045.
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Coomans, J., L. Hermenault, R. van Kooten & C. Weeda, “Plague, Religion and Urban Space in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp.” Social History of Medicine 37, no. 3 (2024): pp. 583-610.
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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.
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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.
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2023
Geltner, G., “Ecological Impacts and Environmental Perceptions of Mining in Europe, 1200-1550: Preliminary Notes.” Parergon 40, no. 1 (2023): pp. 157-80.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zaneri, T. & G. Geltner, “The Dynamics of Healthscaping: Mapping Communal Hygiene in Bologna, 1287–1383.” Urban History 49, no. 1 (2022): pp. 2–27.
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2021
Coomans, J., Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Winner of the Medieval Academy of America 2025 John Nicholas Brown Prize.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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). Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies 2019 Book Prize in Medieval Studies.
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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Geltner, G., “Public Health and the Pre-Modern City: A Research Agenda.” History Compass 10 (2012): pp. 231-45.
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