- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- History of Medicine Studies
- Medical History and Innovations
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
- History of Science and Medicine
- Historical Art and Culture Studies
- Medicine and Dermatology Studies History
- History of Medical Practice
- Scottish History and National Identity
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Historical Influence and Diplomacy
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
- History of Science and Natural History
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
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- Historical Philosophy and Science
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University of York
2002-2022
New York University Press
1997-1998
Chitose Institute of Science and Technology
1997-1998
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
1997-1998
University of Leicester
1997-1998
University of Bolton
1998
Birkbeck, University of London
1998
University of Manchester
1994
Manchester University
1993
Somerville Hospital
1991
Journal Article The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe Get access Mark S. R. Jenner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 473, September 2002, Pages 984–985, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.473.984 Published: 01 2002
A GREAT MANY THINGS have been said of Smells," observed the late-seventeenthcentury Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini, but "a particular and exact History 'em is yet wanting." 1 This was still case nearly three hundred years later when Roy Porter wrote his foreword to English translation Alain Corbin's The Foul Fragrant, work that more than any other wafted odor into modern historical consciousness."Today's history," declared, "comes deodorized.""How many historians," he continued,...
ABSTRACT Historians have commonly described John Evelyn's pamphlet about London smoke pollution , Fumifugium, as a precocious example of environmental concern. This paper argues that such an interpretation is too simple. proposals are shown to be closely related political allegory and the panegyrics written welcome newly restored Charles II. However, also shows Fumifugium was not simply literary conceit; rather it exemplified mid-seventeenth-century Ėnglish interest in properties air visible...
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen the growth of a new and newly self-conscious cultural historiography senses. This article extends critiques this literature through case study sensory work worlds Sir John Floyer, physician active in Lichfield during late seventeenth early eighteenth centuries. Floyer is best known for his on pulse-taking, something which he described as contributing to art feeling. Less well first book – discussion tastes world their therapeutic possibilities. The explicates,...
In July 1625, as the death toll of what was to become one London's most devastating plague epidemics mounted ominously, Thomas Dekker wrote: 'Foure thousand Red-Crosses have frighted Inhabitants in a very little time: but greater is their number who beene frighted, and fled out City at setting up those Crosses'.1 One manifestation red cross, he noted with sardonic relish, provoked physical reaction exceeding even Londoners' fright flight. A printed bill, 'called, The Red Crosse, or, Englands...
Journal Article Death, Decomposition and Dechristianisation? Public Health Church Burial in Eighteenth-Century England Get access Mark Jenner University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 487, June 2005, Pages 615–632, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei123 Published: 01 2005
Abstract Histories of the Great Fire London regularly mention and reproduce Valentine Knight's scheme for London's reconstruction, published in 1666, note that he was imprisoned his pains. His proposal, with new streets laid out on a rough grid canal through heart city, has attained walk-on part longue durée histories urban planning. However, Knight remained mysterious little studied figure; significance imprisonment fact only to be remain unexplored. By reconstructing biography discovering...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe an innovative senior-level leadership development programme in housing association, East Thames Group, which was designed build the capabilities needed lead organisation through a transformation its culture and working practices. engaged leaders navigating shaping change so doing significantly enhanced their capacity for self-awareness, decision making collaboration. Design/methodology/approach presents descriptive narrative process from...
Not long after I started teaching in universities, a street-smart, course-weary colleague advised me that if you're leading seminar on early modern medicine and discussion dries up because nobody has done the reading, you should distribute extracts from an compilation of medical recipes get students to do in-class exercise. Even most disengaged or disenchanted group, she explained, generally responds when they learn best cure for sore heels was flay live mouse apply its warm skin afflicted...
"Eyam: plague villageThe Great Plague of LondonThe epic in early modern England: heroic measures, 1603–1721." The Seventeenth Century, 29(4), pp. 425–426
Reviewed by: Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities by Carole Rawcliffe Mark Jenner Rawcliffe. Cities. (Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell, 2013). 445 pp. $99.00 (978-1-84383-836-4). In this weighty, extensively researched, important book shakes up many commonly held assumptions about the longue durée history of public health. She also directly challenges most late twentieth-century interpreters Middle Ages: Chapman, Cleese, Gilliam, Idle, Jones, Palin. Mounted...
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