Event Description
The conference is a joint initiative of two ongoing hospital and health history research projects: Hospitalis: Hospital architecture in Portugal (European Institute for Culture Sciences Padre Manuel Antunes/University of Lisbon) and Royal Hospital of All Saints: The City and Health (DPC-Lisbon City Council, NOVA University Lisbon).
It aims to be a space for knowledge sharing on the theme of epidemics, in different geographical contexts, national and foreign, limited to the Middle and Early Modern Ages, seeking to establish a bridge between the past and the present. It will be held in two days and consists of brief presentations (10 min.) carried out by invited researchers, followed by debate, and open to all those interested in participating.
June 18
Chair: Margarida Lalanda (University of the Azores)
O surgimento da ideia moderna de contagio e seu impacto terapêutico – Adelina Cardoso (NOVA FCSH)
Surviving Plague in Late Renaissance Florence – John Henderson (Birkbeck, University of London)
Epidemias en Cataluña en la edad media: propuestas de actuacion a la luz de los documentos – Antoni Conejo (University of Barcelona)
Epidemias em Évora no século XVI: respostas do poder politico – Laurinda Abreu (University of Évora)
“Para se remediar o damno da dita pestilencia…” – as primerias medidas de prenvençao das epidemias em Lisboa – Edite Martins Alberto (NOVA FCSH)
June 19
Chair: Luis Costa e Sousa (NOVA FSCH)
The Second Plague Pandemic: Mobility and Bottlenecks in Netherlandish Cities – Janna Coomans (University of Amsterdam) and Claire Weeda (University of Amsterdam/Leiden University)
A Peste Negra em meio rural: o caso da Terra da Maia – André Silva (University of Porto)
“To Preserve from the Pestilence”: The Plague Tractate of Jaume d’Agramont and Its Context – Jaume Marcé Sanchez (University of Barcelona)
Prevenir e tratar a doença na Idade Média: os cuidados do corpo nos hospitais da região de Coimbra – Ana Rita Rocha (University of Coimbra)
Past Plagues in the Time of Coronavirus: The Ottoman Experience – Nükhet Varlik (University of South Carolina)
18-19 June 2020, 17:30-19:00 BST
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