Conserving Health in Early Modern Culture

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

Introduction
Conserving health: the Non-Naturals in early modern culture and society – Sandra Cavallo
Part I: A comparative perspective on preventive literature
1 Regimens, authors and readers: Italy and England compared – Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey
Part 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 Castiglione
3 ‘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 places
5 Neapolitan airs: health advice and medical culture on the edge of a volcano – Maria Conforti
6 The afterlife of the Non-Naturals in early eighteenth-century Hippocratism: from the healthy individual to a healthy population – Maria Pia Donato
Part IV: Spiritual health and bodily health
7 Sleep-piety and healthy sleep in early modern English households – Sasha Handley
8 English and Italian health advice: Protestant and Catholic bodies – Tessa Storey
Part V: Spaces, paintings and objects: performing and portraying health
9 Chasing ‘good air’ and viewing beautiful perspectives: painting and health preservation in seventeenth-century Rome – Frances Gage
10 Hot drinking practices in the late-Renaissance Italian household: a case-study around an enigmatic pouring vessel – Marta Ajmar
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