Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images a

Conserving health in early modern culture explores the impact of ideas about healthy living in early modern England and Italy. The attention of medical historia

This multidisciplinary volume offers new insights into the development of genres of medical discourse in changing socio-cultural contexts.

People and goods from across the globe filled the vibrant ports of Genoa and Venice during the Renaissance. This book takes us onto the streets, bridges, and wa

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague