Reconsidering Illness and Recovery in the Early Modern World

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This virtual conference organized by Rachel Clamp (Durham University) and Claire Turner (University of Leeds) will bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers to reconsider the role of health, illness, and recovery in the early modern world in light of the current crisis. These topics sit at the intersection of some of the most significant themes in early modern history and are particularly relevant today. The ways in which contemporaries interpreted, represented, monitored, controlled and ultimately recovered from illness have broad implications for the study of science, medicine, religion, art, literature and so much more.

18th August 13:00-14:00 BST – Epidemic and Infectious Disease

Aaron Columbus (Birkbeck, University of London) – “For the better observing of order during this tyme of the contagious infection:” The response of parish government to plague in the suburban environs of London c.1600–1650

Marina Ini (University of Cambridge) – Quarantine and plague prevention: lazzaretti in the early modern Mediterranean

Lorna Giltrow-Shaw (University of Birmingham) – “Death..dogs them into their own houses” The pestilential pooch in the Jacobean play The Witch of Edmonton

14:00–15:00 BST – Medical Encounters and Interventions

Nat Cutter (University of Melbourne) – The First Misery of Barbary: Plague, Medicine, Recovery and Death for British Expatriates in the Ottoman Maghreb, 1660–1710

Maggie Bell (Norton Simon Museum) – Looking Exercises: Salutary Effects of Images in the Central Ward of Santa Maria della Scala

Helen Esfandiary (King’s College London) – Managing Smallpox: Elite Georgian Mothers and the Making of an English Method of Inoculation

15:00–16:00 BST – Keynote Presentation

 John Henderson (Birkbeck, University of London) – Imagining the Great Pox in Renaissance Italy: Patients, symptoms and treatment

19th August 13:00-14:00 –Ideals of Health and Recovery

Emma Marshall (University of York) – People, Place and Power: A Case Study Re-Evaluating Elite Domestic Healthcare

Ninon Dubourg (University of Paris) – Disabling Consequences of Illnesses on Clerics’ Recruitment in 1459: Re-Inclusion of Disabled People within the Church by Pius II

Amie Bolissian-McRae (University of Reading) – “A conservative cure in respect of Age”: The Contingent Nature of Recovery for Early Modern Ageing Patients

14:00–14:45 – Keynote Presentation

Hannah Newton (University of Reading) – Inside the Sick Chamber: The History of Illness in Six Objects

Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 August 2020, 13:00–16:00 BST

Source: https://illnessandrecoveryconference.wordpress.com/

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