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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are delighted to share Mukhtar Ahmed's 'From Persia to Paris: A Journey of Ideas and Cultures (Sixteenth–Twentieth Centuries)'. It explores and traces the transmission and exchange of ideas, literary traditions, and intellectual influences between Iran (erstwhile Persia) and France. #historysky

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From Persia to Paris: A Journey of Ideas and Cultures (Sixteenth-Twentieth Centuries) by Mukhtar Ahmed , Manohar Books

From Persia to Paris: A Journey of Ideas and Cultures (Sixteenth-Twentieth Centuries) by Mukhtar Ahmed ISBN - 9788169779784

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Late to the party, but recently come across "Salutogenic Urbanism: Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern European Cities" ed. Mohammad Gharipour and Anatole Tchikine that has some great contributions link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #histmed #histstm

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Salutogenic Urbanism

This book offers a new perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring ways in which architecture design served to promote public health

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Check out a new article by Emily Hutchinson, "Healthscaping and Climate Volatility: Weather, Experience, and Urban Governance in Paris, 1364–1422,” is part of an exciting special Forum on Medieval Environments in French Historical Studies! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... #histstm #historysky

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Volume 49 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Warm congrats to our friends and colleagues Axel Christophersen, Erik Opsahl and James Barrett, who just published their long-awaited edited volume on Health in Medieval Trondheim! It's been an honour and a pleasure to see this project develop! Available OA below #histmed #histstm

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Health in Medieval Urban Trondheim

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Upcoming seminar: :"Keywords in Health & medical Humanities: Work" Hannah McCann, Geraldine Fela, Nicola Redhouse & Guy Geltner 1 September, 16:00–17:00 Digital Lab, Room 213, Arts West (West), B148 (Email: paige.donaghy@unimelb.edu.au for Zoom) #histmed #histstm #historysky

Keywords in health & medical Humanities: work

Hannah McCann, Geraldine Fela, Nicola Redhouse & Guy Geltner

Seminar Series 2026

Tuesday 1 September, 16:00–17:00

Digital Lab, Room 213, Arts West (West), B148
(Email: paige.donaghy@unimelb.edu.au for Zoom)

Organised by Medical Humanities Research Lab

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Jason R Crow @melichloron.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If any of my medieval and early modern scholars here on bsky are interested, I have organized a panel on how Cistercian and Monastic Culture appears in Contemporary Media for the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo next year. icms.confex.com/icms/2027/pr...

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Cistercian and Monastic Culture in Contemporary Media

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Available now for pre-order: Lucifer's Land: The Mines and Miners of Europe, 1180–1550 by our G. Geltner www.pennpress.org/978151282999... #histmed #histstm

A book cover, the text reads 'Lucifer's Land: The Mines and Miners of Europe, 1180-1550. G. Geltner'. The cover image is of a crack in the ground that demons are climbing out of, people and horses are around looking at it. On the left hand side is a miner with a pickaxe digging into stone.

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We had such a great time at our conference last week! What an interesting and thought provoking collection of papers to showcase the research of the project. We might have been capping off the project, but the discussions are going to continue on from here, I’m sure! #histmed #histstm

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Agreed! The round table was an excellent tie up of our last two days, full of thoughts and questions we’ll carry with us forward

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Our next panel is on 'Rural Landscapes, Un/sustainable Environments'. Jessica O'Leary begins, demonstrating how in colonial Brazil, Indigenous therapeutic practices formed foundational layers of colonial healthcare. She emphasises how this creates enduring but unacknowledged medical traditions.

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Panel Two on Day Two is on 'Perspectives of Community Health'. We open with Elizabeth Burrell who is challenging traditional narratives of medical authority and highlighting that the boundary between lay and learned medical knowledge was porous #histmed #histstm

Photo of a PowerPoint slide, the text reads: • Dona Elvira shows lay expertise could hold legal authority
• Male physicians disagreed over
Margalita's condition
• Their uncertainty exposed limits of learned male observation
• Credible medical authority extended beyond formal training
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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today we start with pastries and a roundtable on the recently published 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balance' ed. by our G. Geltner, Janna Coomans, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (@yoelitlalim.bsky.social). Check out three OA chapters here: academic.oup.com/book/62595 #histmed #histstm

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I was too caught up in listening to our keynote yesterday that I didn't even post about it! Pamela Smith gave us a thought-provoking paper on thinking through human-material interactions: crafts, bodies, and the environment in the Preindustrial world #histmed #histstm

Photo of a PowerPoint screen. The text reads: Humans figure less the masters and manipulators of a static world and more the products of a vibrant world
- Timothy J. LeCain, The Matter of History:
How things Create the Past, 2017

How do materials and art make humans?

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In session three, we are hearing about the Bioarchaeology of Community Care! We open with Serena Viva who is discussing what bioarchaelogical evidence has told us about health, disease patterns, and occupational stress in medieval mining communities

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The Medieval mining castle of Rocca San Silvestro
The Miners Project: health and resilience in the Medieval mining castle of Rocca San Silvestro (Tuscany, Italy)
Mediterranean Sea and Tuscany in Italy.
will Serena Viva
MONASH
Unverst
Pursuing Public Heath in the Preindustrial World, 1100-
1800 - Discovery Projects grant (DP220102914)
Guy Gelter (Primary Chief Investigator)
Giovanna Bianchi, Partner Investigator
320 PM
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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Session Two is on ‘Healthscaping with Air and Water’. We start with Rose Byfleet discussing air and multi-sensory pleasure in Medici gardens in the pursuit of health

Photo of a screen, open on zoom. On the right is a woman who is talking. On the left is an image of a Birds Eye view of a large garden.

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Onto the first panel: Health on the Move Aydogan Kars discussing the institutional transformations that the medical professional underwent in the 13th c. Levant #histmed #histsm

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The Rise of Medical Colleges
colleges with full-time staff employed to teach & practice medicine accessible college libraries with medical (and non-medical works
- 1226: Damascus, Syria (Dakhwar)
- 1234: Baghdad, Iraq
- 1266: Damascus, Syria (Lubüdi)
- 1270s: Damascus, Syria (Nüriyya)
- 1285: Cairo, Egypt (Manşüriyya

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And we are are off, starting with our G. Geltner talking about Occupational Environments in the Premodern World

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Photo of a PowerPoint titled ‘healthscaping 0.0: a occupational Environments in the Premodern World’

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

All set and super excited for our conference starting tomorrow! #histmed #histstm

Photo of two stacks of paper on a table, one is a program that reads: health and the environment in the pre-industrial world: multidisciplinary approaches. The other is a book pamphlet for a book called ‘public health in the premodern world’

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Registration for our two day Premodern Health and the Environment conference next week has closed. ...But if you email me (find at the bottom of the link below), I might just be able to sneak you onto the online registration list 👀 premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org?p=1701 #histmed #histstm

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Consortium for Science, Technology, and Medicine invites applications for fellowship opportunities in the history of science, technology or medicine. Including: -Research Fellowships -Dissertation Completion Fellowships -Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars #histmed #histstm

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Fellowships | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Johns Hopkins Department of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. For more details, see: apply.interfolio.com/182469 #histmed #histstm

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Wow! With registration now closed, we’ve had over 100 registrations! This is very exciting for our conference later this month 🥳

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Check out Paweł Cembrzyński's "Towards an ecology of medieval mining towns: linking social and environmental changes". The paper proposes an ecological framework for understanding medieval mining towns as dynamic socio-ecological systems. #histmed #histstm #medievalsky #historysky

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Towards an ecology of medieval mining towns: linking social and environmental changes | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Towards an ecology of medieval mining towns: linking social and environmental changes - Volume 32 Issue 1

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Conference The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6th–15th century) which will take place in Bologna, 17–19 June 2026. Participants are welcome online and in-person. For further information, please contact: filo.scienceofnaturalproperties@unibo.it. #histmed

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Every urban university campus should have a history of medicine tour - and if you're in Oxford, you can check out this one. A deep and lively dive into the forces that have shaped public health and medicine, and their ongoing legacies. #histmed #histstm #medievalsky #medicinesky

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History of Medicine Tour - Uncomfortable Oxford

Explore the uncomfortable history of medicine on this unique walking tour of Oxford, led by an expert tour guide.

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New Exhibition at the San Silvestro Archaeological Mining Park, showcasing new research done under the direction of Professor Giovanna Bianchi, one of the archaeologists in our team! Check out some photos of PhD student Andrea Tommolini's work on the zoology showcase. #histmed #histstm

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Photo of a glass museum exhibition case, inside are archeological artefacts relating to zoology, including bones and pots.

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

CFP: "Healing in Anatolian Culture," to be held at Cappadocia University in Mustafapaşa, Cappadocia (Türkiye), on 24–26 September 2026. Abstracts due 15 June 2026. sifainanatolia.kapadokya.edu.tr/en/home-page/ #histmed #histstm

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

New publication: Guillet Philippe "L'Anathomia ricardius Anglicus" discussing the treatise which appears to be the first comprehensive synthesis of Constantine the African’s Pantegni, organized according to Galen’s classification of the major organs as described in the Tegni. #histmed #histstm

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L'"ANATHOMIA" DE RICARDUS ANGLICUS - GUILLET PHILIPPE

Un traité d'anatomie physiologique de la fin du XIIe siècle

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Recent publication: Susan L. Einbinder's edition and translation, "A Jewish Physician’s Response to the Black Death: Abraham Caslari’s "Tractate on Pestilential Fevers and Fever Types." www.arc-humanities.org/978180270397... #histmed #histstm

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A Jewish Physician’s Response to the Black Death - Arc Humanities Press

Abraham Caslari was a Jewish physician in Catalonia, where he and his family found refuge after the great expulsion of French Jews in 1306. In 1348, he was a...

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Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim @yoelitlalim.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Book launch today!

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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"...the entangled biogeochemical, social and cultural legacies of manual mining remain largely obscure... [but] by combining approaches across history, archaeology and the paleo-sciences, it is possible to acquire a fresh perspective" Another fascinating study in my favourite journal. #earlymodern

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine's new working group 'Contagion, Culture and the Global South' will hold its first meeting on on Tuesday, May 19. See here for more info: www.chstm.org/group/contag... #histmed #histstm #medicine #medicinesky #historiansky

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Contagion, Culture & the Global South | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Registration required but it is free! For both online and in person attendees! #historiansky #medicinesky #medievalsky #histmed #histstm

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The next Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health Working Group session will be held next Friday 8th May. Wenrui Zhao (University of Utah) will share research on the relationship between mineral medicine and mining in Dutch East India www.chstm.org/group/object... #histmed #histstm

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Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Upcoming talk by G. Geltner "The Workers’ View: An Environmental Approach to Premodern Public Health" as part of the Oxford Medieval History Seminar. 1 June, 5pm BST at the Wharton Room, All Souls College For remote attendance, email medhistsem@history.ox.ac.uk #medievalsky #histmed #histstm

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is hybrid, join us online! #histmed #histstm

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Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Pleased to say that 'Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances' is now available through Oxford Scholarship Online! The volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe academic.oup.com/book/62595 #histmed #histstm

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Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances

Abstract. This volume gathers fifteen studies on the history and archaeology of public health from across the preindustrial globe. Each chapter vividly rec

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