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The working group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity! Also for ancientists, medievalists interested in medical history in the greater Mediterranean premodern. Follow along for news, events, and calls for papers.

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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CFP - Performing Healing: Ritual, Gesture and Therapy in the Ancient Mediterranean | January 2027, Athens. The deadline is Wednesday, September 30! www.eie.gr/en/newsroom/...
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Performing Healing Ritual, Gesture and Therapy in the Ancient Mediterranean | International Conference Call for papers
In the ancient Mediterranean world, healing was never a purely technical or private act. Across different historical periods and cultural settings, whether enacted in healing sanctuaries, domestic env...
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For those of you who aren’t already subscribed, the excellent monthly newsletter of the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology provides regular updates on recent publications, CFP's, and much else of interest to our followers. Sign up here: www.societyancientmedicine.org
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Image: Lipscombe & Company carbon water filter, glazed stoneware, c. 1880, Manchester, UK. Science Museum Group Y1992.62. Photo by author.
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you're an early career scholar looking for mentorship, or a seasoned scholar willing to help mentorr others in the fields of religion/medicine in Late Antiquity, consider participating in our mentorship program! You can still apply today to get matched in September!: www.remedhe.com/events
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Events | ReMeDHe
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
ReMeDHe's first job market workshop will be July 18 at 8 am PST/11 am Eastern time. Our first forty-five minutes will be spent with our panel answering the most common questions sent in beforehand.
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Kassandra Miller's book "Time and Ancient Medicine" has won the Goodwin Prize!(https://www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/charles-j-goodwin-award-merit)
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Colin Webster's book "Tools and the Organism" has won the Goodwin Prize!(https://www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/charles-j-goodwin-award-merit)
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Tools and the Organism
The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.   Medicine is itself a type of technology,…
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Jennifer Regan Borland has won the The Karen Gould Prize in Art History (www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldP…) for "Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps"
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Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps By Jennifer Borland
In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this…
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Janna Coomans has won the John Nicholas Brown prize (www.medievalacademy.org/page/Brown_…) for her book "Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries."
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Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In @science.org Tara Mulder writes that Helen King's "Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts" is "a masterful achievement born from an impressive and influential career." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science…
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Immaculate Forms
“Never has medical history been more entertaining” (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women’s bodies fr...
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Shout outs in Pasts Imperfect: Monica H. Green & Nahyan Fancy, “Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al" Sofía Torallas Tovar, “Compilers of Magic: Greco-Egyptian Magical Handbooks through the Eyes of Their Scribes"
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Pasts Imperfect (2.20.25)
Ancient and Modern Immigration, Amazonian "Garden Cities," Cuneiform School Exercises, Greco-Egyptian Scribes Penning Magical Handbooks, and Much More
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Help us at ReMeDHe plan our summer job market workshop! forms.gle/Nv4NqMBE1a3v...
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ReMeDHe job market workshop planning
ReMeDHe will be hosting a job market workshop this summer! We'd love both your questions and your answers. Your questions will help drive our workshop, and the answers you give here will be hosted in ...
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Remember to nominate an article on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean for the Heidi Marx Prize! - published any time in the last 3 years - in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025) - self-nominations welcome - $250 in books of your choice - nominations due March 1
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The Heidi Marx Prize | ReMeDHe
Working Group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health, and Healing in Late Antiquity
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A reminder about the ReMeDHe book series with Routledge (Religion, Medicine and Health in Late Antiquity). Check it out and, if you're working on something you think might be a good fit, please do get in touch!
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Religion, Medicine and Health in Late Antiquity - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press
Routledge & CRC Press Series: This series explores the intersections and interactions of religion, medicine, and health in late antiquity. Our aim is to give attention to the diversity of he
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Nominate an article on medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean for the Heidi Marx Prize! - published any time in the last 3 years - in print by the awarding of the prize (June 2025) - self-nominations welcome - $250 in books of your choice - nominations due March 1
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The Heidi Marx Prize | ReMeDHe
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Too Complex to Explain? Poisons, Antidotes, and Emergent Properties in the Early Modern Period Andreas Blank 23 January 2024 – 5 PM (CET) csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
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ReMeDHe @remedhe.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
We exist here now too!
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