Category Archives: Publications

Politics of Movement: Exploring Passage Points in Responses to COVID-19 and the Plague in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Peyman Amiri

Authors: Janna Coomans, Claire Weeda Abstract Engaging the concepts of flow, circulation and blockage can help us to understand the trajectories of pandemics and the social responses to them. Central to the analysis is the concept of obligatory passage points … Continue reading →

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Book Review: “Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets dans les campagnes de l’Occident médiéval et moderne”

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

Marc Conesa, Nicolas Poirier (dir.), Fumiers! Ordures! Gestion et usage des déchets dans les campagnes de l’Occident médiéval et moderne. Actes des XXXVIIIes Journées internationales d’histoire de l’abbaye de Flaran, 14 et 15 octobre 2016, Toulouse (Presses universitaires du Midi) … Continue reading →

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Roads to Health wins AAIS Book Awards in Medieval Studies

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

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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New Publication: Mapping Health in the Middle Ages

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Peyman Amiri

“Public health is often thought of as a by-product of modernity, yet historical evidence shows that numerous stakeholders in Medieval Europe took steps to reduce risks and improve health outcomes.” Guy Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Claire Weeda explain how the … Continue reading →

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New Publication: Osteoarchaeology in Historical Context

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

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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New Article by Guy Geltner: “The Path to Pistoia: Urban Hygiene Before the Black Death”

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

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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“Roads to Health” – Now Available from Penn Press

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

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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Forthcoming: “Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe” Edited by Claire Weeda & Carole Rawcliffe

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Peyman Amiri

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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New Article by Guy Geltner: “In the Camp and on the March: Military Manuals as Sources for Studying Premodern Public Health”

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Peyman Amiri

Abstract: Historians tend to view public health as a quintessentially modern phenomenon, enabled by the emergence of representative democracies, centralised bureaucracies and advanced biomedicine. While social, urban and religious historians have begun chipping away at the entrenched dichotomy between pre/modernity … Continue reading →

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New Article by Guy Geltner: “In the Camp and on the March: Military Manuals as Sources for Studying Premodern Public Health”

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Peyman Amiri

Abstract: Historians tend to view public health as a quintessentially modern phenomenon, enabled by the emergence of representative democracies, centralized bureaucracies and advanced biomedicine. While social, urban and religious historians have begun chipping away at the entrenched dichotomy between pre/modernity … Continue reading →

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