Public Health in the Premodern World

G. Geltner is a social, cultural, and environmental historian with a focus on Europe, 1100-1550 and a broad comparative approach. He has published extensively on the history of crime and punishment, the mendicant orders, community health, and mining, increasingly in collaboration with archaeology and the paleo-sciences.

Janna Coomans is Assistant Professor at the department of Medieval History, Utrecht University. Her research focuses on social history, public health, and environment in premodern cities. Her dissertation was published in 2021 as Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge University Press). Between 2018-2021, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC-project ‘Healthscaping Urban Europe’.

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is a medical historian who has worked on various aspects of Eurasian transmissions of knowledge. Within this general scope, she has published extensively on the multi-cultural aspects of Tibetan medicine, the transmissions of medical knowledge along the Silk Roads, as well as on the links between early Jewish medicine and other medical traditions.