Mastodon feed- Untitled March 31, 2026Please come along to our book launch in Oxford of Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim published by Oxford University Press. Three chapters of the book are also available Open Access, find them at the following link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/public-health-in-the-premodern-world-9780198969464?lang=3n&cc=rs#For those on the other side of […]
- Untitled March 26, 2026Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"! Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia. See the program here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4FElavGNTvCSSM0svVliBGEVrI4Kvm/view?usp=sharingRegistration: https://forms.gle/w49zfP3CPBQjaXG38 #histmed #histstm
- Untitled March 18, 2026BOOK DISCOUNT CODE: Have you had your eye on “Public Health in the Premodern World” ed. by our G. Geltner with Janna Coomans & Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim which illustrates the rich history of public health? Check out the code below to get 30% off! #histmed #medhst
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Pest en politie: De politiek van publieke gezondheid toen en nu
Publieke gezondheid en politiemacht zijn historisch altijd aan elkaar verbonden geweest. Tijdens eerdere pandemieën kwam er een sterkere controle op en stigmatisering van armere bevolkingsgroepen. Juist nu moet er daarom sprake zijn van georganiseerde kritiek, betogen Janna Coomans en Claire … Continue reading
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Roads to Health wins AAIS Book Awards in Medieval Studies
Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy (University of Pennsylvania Press) wins American Association for Italian Studies Book Awards in Medieval Studies for 2019. In this book, Guy Geltner “proposes to examine public health from an … Continue reading
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Historical Parallels between the Black Death/Second Plague Pandemic and the Current Coronavirus Crisis
Janna Coomans discussed the historical parallels between the Black Death/Second Plague Pandemic and the current Coronavirus crisis on Radio 1 (Sunday 22 March) and in a recent blog post, (both in Dutch). They can be found here: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/luister/afleveringen/2020/22-03-2020.html# https://www.historici.nl/pest-in-tijden-van-corona/?type=bijdrage
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Janna Coomans Won the 2019 Pro Civitate Award of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
Janna Commans, a member of the Premodern Healthscaping Project, has won the prestigious Pro Civitate award of Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts for her doctoral thesis In Pursuit of a Healthy City: Sanitation and the … 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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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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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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Forthcoming: “Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe” Edited by Claire Weeda & Carole Rawcliffe
Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many … Continue reading
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Of Cesspits and Sewers – Will Hunt
Exploring the unlikely history of sanitation management in medieval Holland By Will Hunt “On a balmy July afternoon, archaeologist Roos van Oosten strides through a muddied plot of land near the center of the Dutch city of Leiden and takes … Continue reading
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