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

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

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...

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

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

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

Alex Bamji@alexbamji.bsky.social · last mo.

Fabulous roundtable to conclude the @prosanitate.bsky.social conference, reflecting on concepts and themes that may or may not help us understand pre-modern health and environment, from communities, sites, spaces and the non-human, to public health and the @who.int 's use of 'one health' #history

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CSMBR Upcoming Lecture: Fabrizio Bigotti talking on 'Galen's Remedies Beyond the Renaissance: Early Modern Traditions and Theories of Materia Medica' csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... #histmed #histstm

Galen's Remedies Beyond the Renaissance - CSMBR

Why did Galenic pharmacopoeia survive for nearly two millennia? This lecture explores the intellectual, cultural, and practical reasons behind its extraordinary resilience.

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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

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

Friend of the project Maurizio Meloni has a new book out: ‘Coloniality and Structural Othering in European Thought: A Racialized Canon’ Check it out!

Coloniality and Structural Othering in European Thought | A Racialized

This book provides a historical and conceptual analysis of patterns of racialized otherness in European thought, traversing primary sources, historical periods,

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

Premodern Healthscaping@prosanitate.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"! Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia. See the program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4F... Registration: forms.gle/TqQ6GmN9c6pK...

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

Registration closes next Friday! Come join us. #histmed #histstm #medicalsky #medievalsky #historysky

Premodern Healthscaping@prosanitate.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"! Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia. See the program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4F... Registration: forms.gle/TqQ6GmN9c6pK...

CSMBR Upcoming Lecture: 23 June–5 PM (CET) Marco Signori on "The Colour of Dreams: The Physiology of Oneiric Experience in Greek, Arabic, and Latin Traditions." #histmed #histstm #historysky #medievalsky csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...

The Colour of Dreams - CSMBR

This talk examines how dream colours were linked to the humours in medieval Arabic and Latin texts, tracing their transmission from Galenic medicine and how later authors preserved or modified this id...

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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

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

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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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

CFP: workshop on "Mineral Expertise: The Rules of Knowing Earthly Matter in the Early Modern World”. 4–6 February 2027 at the University of Bologna. scarce.univie.ac.at/news/singlev... #histmed #histstm

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

CFP: VivaMente Conference in the History of Ideas: Deafness in the Premodern Mediterranean, 17 - 18 November 2026. The deadline for submission is 10 September 2026. csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/vivam... #histmed #histstm

Deafness in the Premodern Mediterranean - CSMBR

This VivaMente conference explores deafness and the figure of the deaf person in the Mediterranean Antiquity and premodern ages through historical, medical, and socio-cultural perspectives.

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