This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers to reconsider the role of health, illness, and recovery in the early modern world in light of the current crisis. These topics sit at the intersection of some of the most significant themes in early modern history and are particularly relevant today. The ways in which contemporaries interpreted, represented, monitored, controlled and ultimately recovered from illness have broad implications for the study of science, medicine, religion, art, literature and so much more. See below for the full programme.
Registration is now open to attend the conference. Please follow the link below to register.
Meet the organisers
Rachel Clamp, Durham University
Hello! I’m Rachel and I’m a first-year PhD student in the Department of History at Durham University. My project is entitled ‘Keeping the Diseased: Plague nursing, policy and the poor law in England, 1550-1666’. I’m investigating the practice of plague nursing across the north of England.
Claire Turner, University of Leeds
Hello! I’m Claire and I’m a first year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Leeds. I am working on sensory experiences and perceptions of the plague in seventeenth-century England.
Reconsidering Illness and Recovery in the Early Modern World Online Conference 2020 