We study public & environmental health in the pre-industrial world(s) from multiple disciplines. Our current foci are miners, pilgrims, courts & cities. Share your work on community prophylactics with us: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1403https://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mzekbxpid22qIf you’re looking for some reading about premodern health, check out this list of our team’s publications. Topics span across spiritual health and the Crusades, prophetic medicine, mining, zooarcheology, the list goes on! #histmed #histstm #medievalsky #historysky https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?page_id=12203 Nov 2026 00:08 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzekbxpid22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mze6xtimc225In Open Access: The recent issue of RDH gathers five new studies on health crises and their handling in the Iberian context, from the Black Death to the early 19th century #histmed #histstm https://adeh.org/ultimo-numero-de-la-rdh/02 Nov 2026 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mze6xtimc225https://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mywyj2sfws2rIn Oxford? Come along to Dr Ruairidh Macleod talking about ‘The Consequences of the Earliest Outbreaks of Plague in Prehistory’ Not in Oxford? The recording will be published online later on #histmed #histstm https://events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event/2fe278d3-c2b8-f111-aaae-7c1e52784f9c?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter28 Oct 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mywyj2sfws2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3myhsm4th5s2eNow out by our Megan Cassidy-Welch (@megancw.bsky.social) "Spiritual Health and Crusading: Aspects of Preventative Health Care in the Thirteenth Century" It demonstrates that spiritual and physical health were aligned in medieval medical theory. #histmed #histstm #medievalsky https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/abs/spiritual-health-and-crusading-aspects-of-preventative-health-care-in-the-thirteenth-century/2A0B8FF677A3DE1F86CEE7570D577E6722 Oct 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3myhsm4th5s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mycr2t3mnk2bA huge congratulations to our Aydogan Kars for his book "Prophetic Medicine: Popular Cultures of Healing and Hearing in Medieval Islam". It explores the early history of an influential literature that has informed public health in Muslim communities around the globe. #histmed #histstm #medievalsky https://academic.oup.com/book/6348020 Oct 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mycr2t3mnk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mxtj2lxfzk2wThe international working-group on Religion, Medicine, Disability, and Health in late antiquity invites applications for its 2027 article-in-progress workshop. Find the call for applications in the attached link. #histmed #histstm https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QzQ8ob-VEBT3k8OihzEs1YFqPuhum0ry/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105207260764098891966&rtpof=true&sd=true14 Oct 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtj2lxfzk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mxqyr5iakc2wThe team would like to send a warm congratulations to Dr Elma Brenner for securing £1.2 million UK Research and Innovation award to become a Future Leaders Fellow. The project will explore the relationship between healing and handcrafts in 1200-1550 France. #histmed #histstm https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Research-News/Textile-workers-role-in-medieval-healing-set-to-be-studied13 Oct 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxqyr5iakc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mxmrnc5juc2hThe team marks with great sadness the passing of Chris Wickham, for many years Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham and emeritus Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. 1/2 https://www.isime.it/cordoglio-per-la-scomparsa-di-christopher-john-wickham/11 Oct 2026 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxmrnc5juc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mxhwcwuvuc2xCheck out our G. Geltner’s new chapter, “L’igiene pubblica,” in Comuniter et concorditer: Lo Statuto di Todi del 1275, ed. Enrico Menetò (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, 2026), 159-72. #histmed #histstm #medievalsky #historysky https://shop.cisam.org/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=133609 Oct 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxhwcwuvuc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mxcdv7a3fc2sEveryone should go read Paige’s article! #histmed #histstm #historysky [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Oct 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxcdv7a3fc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/prosanitate.bsky.social/post/3mwtjncq3fs23We 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 https://www.manoharbooks.com/BookDetails/220147/From-Persia-to-Paris-A-Journey-of-Ideas-and-Cultures-Sixteenth-Twentieth-Centuries01 Oct 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:6fatig6onrmobjjeg33rc4vw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtjncq3fs23