Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture : Bodies and Environments in Italy and England
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28522213
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-5261-1347-4
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This pioneering collection (Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture: bodies and environments in Italy and England, Manchester University Press, 2017) is the first to be devoted to measures adopted by early modern people to maintain health in daily practices; and the first comparative work on early modern medicine. From the outset it also provokes reconsideration of the common consensus that a pan-European medical culture existed, facilitated by the translation and transmission of medical treatises across the continent. Linked with Cavallo’s Wellcome Trust Project Grant “Healthy Homes Healthy Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy” (2009-12), the edited volume originated in a conference entitled ‘Healthy Living in pre-modern Europe: the theory and practice of the six Non-Naturals (c.1400-c.1700)’, which was organised by Cavallo and Royal Holloway’s Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture (and funded by the Wellcome Trust). The volume was entirely devised by Sandra Cavallo and her co-editor Storey, who commissioned the contributions, guided and edited those contributions, and made significant contributions themselves. Cavallo contributed a single authored introduction surveying the field (‘Conserving Health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society’, pp. 1-20) and a co-authored long chapter (‘Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared’, pp. 23-52). As one reviewer put it, “This volume represents a significant contribution to the burgeoning discussion of the non-naturals and to the comparative history of early modern European health care that will hopefully inspire further comparisons of other European examples” (Social History of Medicine, 32, 1 (February 2019), pp. 188–9).
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