Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture

Sandra Cavallo is Professor of Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of LondonTessa Storey is Honorary Research Associate in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London

‘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.’Jennifer Evans, University of Hertfordshire, Social History of Medicine Vol. 32, No. 1History of emotions

• IntroductionConserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society – Sandra CavalloPart I: A comparative perspective on preventive literature1 Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared – Sandra Cavallo and Tessa StoreyPart II: The Non-Naturals and the vulnerable body 2 ‘What to expect when you’re always expecting’: frequent childbirth and female health in late Renaissance Italy – Caroline Castiglione3 ‘Ordering the infant’: caring for newborns in early modern England – Leah Astbury (available open access) 4 ‘She sleeps well and eats an egg’: convalescent care in early modern England – Hannah Newton (available open access)Part III: Airs and places5 Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano – Maria Conforti6 The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population – Maria Pia DonatoPart IV: Spiritual health and bodily health7 Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households – Sasha Handley8 English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies – Tessa StoreyPart V: Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health9 Chasing ‘good air’ and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome – Frances Gage10 Hot drinking practices in the late-Renaissance Italian household: a case-study around an enigmatic pouring vessel – Marta AjmarIndex