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.

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• Contributor List List of maps List of figures and tables Introduction: Premodern Bodies, Changing Environments, New Approaches. G. Geltner, Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Part 1: Urban Risks and Resources 1: Asaf Goldschmidt and Marta Hanson: Healthscaping Public-Health History in Premodern China 2: Abigail Agresta: Plague Prevention, Care, and Infrastructure in Valencia, 1450-1520 3: Carmen Caballero-Navas: Agents of Communal Health in Iberian Jewish Communities, 1200-1500 4: Lola Digard: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Medical Institutions in Flemish Cities, 1200-1550 5: Carole Rawcliffe: Fire Prevention in Late Medieval British Towns and Cities 6: Maaike van Berkel and Edmund Hayes: Governing Water and Public Health in a Muslim City: Cairo in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century CE Part 2: Healthscaping the Countryside 7: Léa Hermenault: Dynamic Landscapes: The Archaeology of Prevention in Northwestern Europe (Seventh to Fourteenth Century) 8: G. Geltner: Preventative Healthcare among Miners in Europe, 1200-1550 9: Janna Coomans: Dangerous Flows: Public Health and the Itinerant Poor in the Urban and Rural Low Countries, 1400-1600 10: Francesco Bianchini: Better Safe than Sorry: 'Houses of Health' and Ideologies of Care across the Bay of Bengal Part 3: Religious and Intellectual Traditions of Preventative Healthcare 11: Edward Anthony Polanco: They Who Have Stood as Women: The Nahua-Cihuateteoh Reciprocal Preventative Relationship in the Postclassic and Early Colonial Valley of Mexico 12: Justin Stearns: The Promises and Limitations of Islamicate Plague Treatises from the Eighth/Fourteenth-Fourteenth/Nineteenth Centuries 13: Claire Weeda: Pestilential Insects and Public Health in Europe, c. 1100-1600 14: Shireen Hamza: Ulema, Medicine, and Community in Yemen's Long Fifteenth Century 15: Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim: Buddhist Prophylactics in Visual Form: Bio-Politics and Public Health in Seventeenth Century Tibet Afterword: Where Next? Peregrine Horden

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.

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• Contributor List List of maps List of figures and tables Introduction: Premodern Bodies, Changing Environments, New Approaches. G. Geltner, Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Part 1: Urban Risks and Resources 1: Asaf Goldschmidt and Marta Hanson: Healthscaping Public-Health History in Premodern China 2: Abigail Agresta: Plague Prevention, Care, and Infrastructure in Valencia, 1450-1520 3: Carmen Caballero-Navas: Agents of Communal Health in Iberian Jewish Communities, 1200-1500 4: Lola Digard: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Medical Institutions in Flemish Cities, 1200-1550 5: Carole Rawcliffe: Fire Prevention in Late Medieval British Towns and Cities 6: Maaike van Berkel and Edmund Hayes: Governing Water and Public Health in a Muslim City: Cairo in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century CE Part 2: Healthscaping the Countryside 7: Léa Hermenault: Dynamic Landscapes: The Archaeology of Prevention in Northwestern Europe (Seventh to Fourteenth Century) 8: G. Geltner: Preventative Healthcare among Miners in Europe, 1200-1550 9: Janna Coomans: Dangerous Flows: Public Health and the Itinerant Poor in the Urban and Rural Low Countries, 1400-1600 10: Francesco Bianchini: Better Safe than Sorry: 'Houses of Health' and Ideologies of Care across the Bay of Bengal Part 3: Religious and Intellectual Traditions of Preventative Healthcare 11: Edward Anthony Polanco: They Who Have Stood as Women: The Nahua-Cihuateteoh Reciprocal Preventative Relationship in the Postclassic and Early Colonial Valley of Mexico 12: Justin Stearns: The Promises and Limitations of Islamicate Plague Treatises from the Eighth/Fourteenth-Fourteenth/Nineteenth Centuries 13: Claire Weeda: Pestilential Insects and Public Health in Europe, c. 1100-1600 14: Shireen Hamza: Ulema, Medicine, and Community in Yemen's Long Fifteenth Century 15: Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim: Buddhist Prophylactics in Visual Form: Bio-Politics and Public Health in Seventeenth Century Tibet Afterword: Where Next? Peregrine Horden

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.

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• Contributor List List of maps List of figures and tables Introduction: Premodern Bodies, Changing Environments, New Approaches. G. Geltner, Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Part 1: Urban Risks and Resources 1: Asaf Goldschmidt and Marta Hanson: Healthscaping Public-Health History in Premodern China 2: Abigail Agresta: Plague Prevention, Care, and Infrastructure in Valencia, 1450-1520 3: Carmen Caballero-Navas: Agents of Communal Health in Iberian Jewish Communities, 1200-1500 4: Lola Digard: Governmentality, Biopolitics and Medical Institutions in Flemish Cities, 1200-1550 5: Carole Rawcliffe: Fire Prevention in Late Medieval British Towns and Cities 6: Maaike van Berkel and Edmund Hayes: Governing Water and Public Health in a Muslim City: Cairo in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century CE Part 2: Healthscaping the Countryside 7: Léa Hermenault: Dynamic Landscapes: The Archaeology of Prevention in Northwestern Europe (Seventh to Fourteenth Century) 8: G. Geltner: Preventative Healthcare among Miners in Europe, 1200-1550 9: Janna Coomans: Dangerous Flows: Public Health and the Itinerant Poor in the Urban and Rural Low Countries, 1400-1600 10: Francesco Bianchini: Better Safe than Sorry: 'Houses of Health' and Ideologies of Care across the Bay of Bengal Part 3: Religious and Intellectual Traditions of Preventative Healthcare 11: Edward Anthony Polanco: They Who Have Stood as Women: The Nahua-Cihuateteoh Reciprocal Preventative Relationship in the Postclassic and Early Colonial Valley of Mexico 12: Justin Stearns: The Promises and Limitations of Islamicate Plague Treatises from the Eighth/Fourteenth-Fourteenth/Nineteenth Centuries 13: Claire Weeda: Pestilential Insects and Public Health in Europe, c. 1100-1600 14: Shireen Hamza: Ulema, Medicine, and Community in Yemen's Long Fifteenth Century 15: Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim: Buddhist Prophylactics in Visual Form: Bio-Politics and Public Health in Seventeenth Century Tibet Afterword: Where Next? Peregrine Horden