Medievalists.net » Healthcare http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Making the Medieval Relevant: Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Studies on Disease and Disability http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/making-the-medieval-relevant-crossing-boundaries-interdisciplinary-studies-on-disease-and-disability/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/making-the-medieval-relevant-crossing-boundaries-interdisciplinary-studies-on-disease-and-disability/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:44:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62643 A summary of a paper given by Professor Christina Lee at the University of Nottingham's "Making the Medieval Relevant" Conference.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/20/making-the-medieval-relevant-crossing-boundaries-interdisciplinary-studies-on-disease-and-disability/feed/ 0 Dyes, Diets and Deodorants: Venetian Beauty Secrets Revealed http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/08/dyes-diets-and-deodorants-venetian-beauty-secrets-revealed/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/08/dyes-diets-and-deodorants-venetian-beauty-secrets-revealed/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:53:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58784 If you think it's hard to keep up a beauty regime now, wait until you see what lengths the Venetians went to in order to be beautiful!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/01/13/make-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Living cheek by jowl: the pathoecology of medieval York http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/15/living-cheek-jowl-pathoecology-medieval-york/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/15/living-cheek-jowl-pathoecology-medieval-york/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2014 01:08:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51866 This paper aims to present the environmental context for disease combined with the human osteological record to reconstruct the pathoecology of medieval York.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/15/living-cheek-jowl-pathoecology-medieval-york/feed/ 0 The Cyrurgia of Albucasis and other works, 1500 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/cyrurgia-albucasis-works-1500/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/cyrurgia-albucasis-works-1500/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2014 19:20:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48924 Four surgical treatises, printed in the last year of the fifteenth century, make up the oldest illustrated printed book in the Sibbald Library. The second one, the Cyrurgia of Albucasis, is the most interesting and I shall deal only briefly with the others.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/cyrurgia-albucasis-works-1500/feed/ 0 The Stench of Disease: Public Health and the Environment in Late-Medieval English towns and cities http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/15/stench-disease-public-health-environment-late-medieval-english-towns-cities/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/15/stench-disease-public-health-environment-late-medieval-english-towns-cities/#comments Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:24:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47600 This article explores the urban environmental concerns of late-medieval English towns and cities and argues that these urban areas had a form of public health.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/15/stench-disease-public-health-environment-late-medieval-english-towns-cities/feed/ 0 Limitations imposed by wearing armour on Medieval soldiers’ locomotor performance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/10/limitations-imposed-by-wearing-armour-on-medieval-soldiers-locomotor-performance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/10/limitations-imposed-by-wearing-armour-on-medieval-soldiers-locomotor-performance/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:51:42 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47485 Our findings can predict age-associated decline in Medieval soldiers’ physical performance, and have potential implications in understanding the outcomes of past European military battles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/10/limitations-imposed-by-wearing-armour-on-medieval-soldiers-locomotor-performance/feed/ 0 ‘Royal’ pediculosis in Renaissance Italy: lice in the mummy of the King of Naples Ferdinand II of Aragon (1467-1496) http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/royal-pediculosis-in-renaissance-italy-lice-in-the-mummy-of-the-king-of-naples-ferdinand-ii-of-aragon-1467-1496/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/royal-pediculosis-in-renaissance-italy-lice-in-the-mummy-of-the-king-of-naples-ferdinand-ii-of-aragon-1467-1496/#comments Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:16:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47281 Pediculosis seems to have afflicted humans since the most ancient times and lice have been found in several ancient human remains. Examination of the head hair and pubic hair of the artificial mummy of Ferdinand II of Aragon (1467-1496), King of Naples, revealed a double infestation with two different species of lice...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/03/royal-pediculosis-in-renaissance-italy-lice-in-the-mummy-of-the-king-of-naples-ferdinand-ii-of-aragon-1467-1496/feed/ 0 Plague and Persecution: The Black Death and Early Modern Witch Hunts http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/plague-and-persecution-the-black-death-and-early-modern-witch-hunts/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/plague-and-persecution-the-black-death-and-early-modern-witch-hunts/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:06:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47094 The century or so from approximately 1550 to 1650 is a period during which witch-hunts reached unprecedented frequency and intensity. The circumstances that fomented the witch- hunts—persistent warfare, religious conflict, and harvest failures—had occurred before, but witch-hunts had never been so ubiquitous or severe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/27/plague-and-persecution-the-black-death-and-early-modern-witch-hunts/feed/ 0 Women Healers and the Medical Marketplace of 16th-Century Lyon http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/26/women-healers-and-the-medical-marketplace-of-16th-century-lyon/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/26/women-healers-and-the-medical-marketplace-of-16th-century-lyon/#comments Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:40:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47012 Women Healers and the Medical Marketplace of 16th-Century Lyon Alison Klairmont-Lingo Dynamis: Vol.19 (1999) Abstract Although women’s legal and marital status make them almost invisible in archival documents, what traces remain suggest that women participated in Lyon’s medical marketplace in various ways and under various guises. At Lyon’s municipally-funded poor hospital, the Hotel-Dieu, widows and […]

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