This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease

Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across

How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This gr

‘Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demon

Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions,