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Project Events<\/h1>\n

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Project Conference: ‘Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The conference took place 9th-10th June 2025 at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library in Manchester.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute)<\/p>\n

Scholarship on early modern embodiment has emphasised the body\u2019s porosity, permeability and instability. Early modern bodies did not end at the skin, but rather their interior and exterior worlds were in constant material exchange. Close engagement with, and management of, the body\u2019s surroundings was thus essential for ensuring health and wellbeing. European theories of embodiment drew on Hippocratic-Galenic medical teachings in which bodies shared a common elemental make-up with the world around them. Healthcare knowledge and practice could be localised and geo-specific, therefore, as the ecological profiles of different places informed a \u2018geo-humoral\u2019 health paradigm in which bodies were understood to become accustomed to particular locales over time. Other cultures conceptualised the relationship between bodies and their surroundings differently. Indigenous communities across the Atlantic, for example, placed greater emphasis on the permeability and interconnectedness of all beings and understood animals and plants as relations to, rather than resources for, human bodies. In a variety of global contexts, flora and fauna were enfolded in practices of health preservation and restoration in diverse ways, often with broader environmental implications. The interdependencies of bodies and environments meant that processes of environmental change likewise impacted on healthcare knowledge and practice.<\/p>\n

The entanglement of early modern bodies and environments lies at the heart of our research for the\u00a0Sleeping Well\u00a0<\/em>project, as we investigate how early modern people engaged with their physical surroundings in an effort to sleep well. Our project has uncovered an environmentally informed culture of \u2018sleep care\u2019 in this period, which we approach by applying the concept of \u2018environing\u2019 to sleep care practices. We conceptualise environing as processes through which humans and nature co-produce environments, and we examine how early modern people engaged in environing practices to safeguard their health.<\/p>\n

You can see the\u00a0event programme<\/a>\u00a0here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other project events<\/h2>\n

Explore our gallery to find out about other events throughout the project<\/p>\n

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Read more about our past events at Ordsall Hall:\u00a0<\/p>\n