{"id":778,"date":"2022-10-07T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=778"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:31:08","slug":"dynamic-balances-public-health-in-the-premodern-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Balances:\u00a0Public Health in the Premodern World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ERC project Premodern Healthscaping hosted its final conference \u2018Dynamic Balances:\u00a0Public Health in the Premodern World\u2019 at the University of Amsterdam on 29-30 September. During this two-day conference, the team members presented the findings of five years of research in numerous aspects of public health in pre-industrial urban Europe. Their propositions were challenged and expanded by contributions from scholars of public health in the Islamic World, South Asia, and Latin America of the same historical period. Here is the list of the presentations during these two days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edmund Hayes and Maaike van Berkel, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Water as a purifying agent in the governance of public health of the medieval middle eastern city<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carole Rawcliffe, University of East Anglia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Fire Prevention\u00a0in Late Medieval\u00a0British Towns and Cities<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>L\u00e9a Hermanault, Universiteit van Amsterdam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Interweaved knowledge: Empirical decisions, relations to natural environment and disseminations of Galenic texts during the Middle Ages in north-western Europe<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abigail Agresta, George Washington University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Plague Hospitals and Public Health Infrastructure in Late Medieval Valencia<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lola Digard, Universiteit van Amsterdam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2018Que nul barrier ne soi si hardi\u2019: The Medical Market as a site of biopolitical negotiation in\u00a0Late Medieval Flanders<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>N\u00fckhet Varl\u0131k, Rutgers University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Imagined Healthscapes:<\/em>\u00a0<em>Early Modern<\/em>\u00a0<em>Ottoman Cities as Places of Health and Disease<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guy Geltner, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Monash University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Preventative Healthcare among Miners in Europe, 1200-1550<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shireen Hamza, Harvard University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Provisioning Ulema with Medicine in the Indian Ocean World<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francesco Bianchini, Kings\u2019 College Cambridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Better Safe than Sorry: Hospitals, prevention and Healthscaping in<\/em>\u00a0<em>Medieval<\/em>\u00a0<em>Monsoon Asia<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Justin Stearns, New York University, Abu Dhabi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Healthscaping a World Ravaged by Plague: The Promises and Limitations of Islamicate Plague Treatises from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carmen Caballero-Navas, Universidad de Granada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Caring for Our People\u2019s Well-being: Agents of Communal Health in Late Medieval Iberian Jewish Communities<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claire Weeda, Universiteit Leiden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Vermin, disease and Public health in Europe, 1100-1600: Extermination, Exorcism and Purification<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Janna Coomans, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Utrecht University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Forced Motions: Poor Migrants and Changing Perceptions of Public Health in Northwestern Europe,<\/em>\u00a0<em>1450-1600<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edward Anthony Polanco, Virginia Tech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Pactinemiliztli: Maintaining, Losing and Restoring Health in Early Colonial Central Mexican Nahua Communities<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The gathering came to a conclusion through a plenary public event on 30 September. During this event Guy Geltner, N\u00fckhet Varl\u0131k, and Peregrine Horden explored the history of premodern public health and reflected on possible future directions within this research field. Below is the title of their talks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guy Geltner, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Monash University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Healthscaping Urban Europe and Beyond <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>N\u00fckhet Varl\u0131k, Rutgers University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rethinking the History of Premodern Health <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Healthscape Picture Restoration: Is There a Risk of Over-cleaning?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The papers which were presented and discussed during the conference will be published in an edited volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ERC project Premodern Healthscaping hosted its final conference \u2018Dynamic Balances:\u00a0Public Health in the Premodern World\u2019 at the University of Amsterdam on 29-30 September. 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