Online workshop 'Matter into Place: Public Health and Urban Space in the Medieval Low Countries'
- When
- 09-07-2021 from 09:00 to 13:00
- Where
- Digital: Zoom
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Peyman Amiri
- Contact
- p.amiri@uva.nl
- Website
- https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=511
Online workshop (open to all) 'Matter into Place: Public Health and Urban Space in the Medieval Low Countries'. Organised by the "Healthscaping Urban Europe" ERC-project and the Henri Pirenne Institute.
Program:
09:00-10:45 Session1: Waterscapes
Janna Coomans, Léa Hermenault (University of Amsterdam)
Water infrastructures and public works as key elements of an economy of movement in Ghent (14th-15th centuries)
Frank Gelaude (University of Antwerp)
Controlling rivers in the medieval city of Ghent
Roos van Oosten (Leiden University)
Water management in a typical Dutch water-rich town
Discussant: Maaike van Berkel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
10:45-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-13:00 Session2: Crafts, wastes and pollution in the city
Lola Digard (University of Amsterdam)
The influence of guilds and peace procedures on the social, moral and healthcare environment of the late medieval cities of Ghent and Douai, 1350-1500
Ward Leloup (Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University)
‘Walram the coryer, he stynketh’. The leather industry and the urban environment in late medieval Bruges and Mechelen
Barbora Wouters, Yanik Devos (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Open spaces, markets, waste management and post pollution in medieval towns through a geoarchaeological lens
Discussant: Marc Boone (Ghent University)
Organizers: Janna Coomans, Lola Digard and Léa Hermenault
The workshop is open to all. Please email p.amiri@uva.nl to register and receive the zoom link.