Posts Tagged ‘medieval history’
Hospital material culture in the Middle and Early Modern Ages: concepts and meanings
The everyday life in a hospital has always been related to different objects and practices that make up the material expression of established human relationships and the very functioning of…
Read MoreExploring Medieval Health Crises: Authority, Practice, & Knowledge (session at IMC Leeds 2024)
From epidemics and famine to barber surgeons and midwives, healing during the Middle Ages represented the ultimate response to social and personal crises. While the medieval medical experience was often…
Read MoreStaying healthy in a medieval city
How was public health organised in premodern societies, and does our knowledge about the more distant past relate to experience of pandemic and public health and environmental challenges today? Various…
Read MoreLatitudes of the body: Human-based measurement and its contexts, from Leonardo to Newton (1400-1700)
International summer school July 21-24, Pisa, Italy and online The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) organises their 2021 international summer school this…
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