Premodern Healthcaping houses several research projects focused on exploring pre-industrial or ‘premodern’ public health across Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East. Our various projects include case studies on rural and urban settlements, mining communities, pilgrims and mystics, and armies. See below for a summary of our projects.
The team respectfully acknowledges it works on unceded territory of First Nations peoples. Based out of Naarm/ Melbourne, it operates from the lands and waters of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation, the traditional and ongoing owners. We extend our gratitude to and respect to elders past and present.
“The Forgotten Silver Age of Sardinia: Miners, metallurgy and the environment in the Iglesias region, 12th-14th centuries“
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“Mining Activities, Public Health Strategies and Pollution Legacies in Europe, 1200-1600”
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“Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800”
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