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God's Good Order and the Artist's Patterns

For centuries of western history, the beauty of art was...

'The Great Unwashed'

Typhus, the subject of the fifth lecture in the series...

Vision and the Artist

Visual disorders affect the way we see, and therefore would...

Blue Funk and Yellow Peril

‘Asiatic cholera’, which arrived in Europe in the early nineteenth...

Using Mortality to Compare the Health of Populations

New Insights Into Mortality Patterns of Early Modern Cities

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian...