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Event Date: 17 January 2012


McCrea 219 Royal Holloway
University of London

Royal Holloway University of London Department of History

Departmental Research seminars 2011/2012

Professor David Abulafia (Cambridge) in conversation with Professor Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway) and Professor David Cesarani (Royal Holloway) about his acclaimed new book The Great Sea. A Human History of the Mediterranean

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Royal Holloway History Department Research Seminar Series

Date: 20 October 2009

Peregrine Horden – What’s Wrong with Medieval Medicine?

As the late great Roy Porter observed, we in the developed world have never have it so good. By any measure we have never been healthier. And yet we have also never been so anxious about our health, or so critical of modern medicine—biomedicine. We look to alternative traditions, many of them Asian. Why do we not also look back to the pre-modern medicine of Europe? What’s wrong with medieval medicine? What could a study of it offer our current malaise? Peregrine Horden explores the medicine of medieval Europe, not as a repository of neglected herbal remedies, but as an example of a medicine that acknowledges its limitations, that aims for rhetorical ‘success’ in the therapeutic encounter rather than biological efficacy; that provides prognosis as much as cure – and that derives its pharmacopoeia from (to us) strange material such as dead vultures as well as from ‘traditional’ herbal lore.

lecture:

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questions:

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Royal Holloway University of London Department of History

Departmental Research Seminar Series 2008/2009

Event Date: 29 April 2009

Two historians – Professor Peregrine Horden and Professor Penelope Corfield –   and one geographer – Professor Clive Gamble – explore the relationship between ‘time’ and ‘History’ and how  the study of History over long periods of time, or ‘Deep History’, can further an understanding the past. While present research points to a shift in periodisation and classification, teaching History in ‘Deep Time’ is clearly something that has not yet entered the syllabus of undergraduate teaching. The discussion here proposes some practical models.

TEACHING HISTORY IN DEEP TIME

a discussion with:

Professor Clive Gamble (Geography)

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Professor Peregrine Horden (History)

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Professor Penelope Corfield (History)

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Handout (Corfield)

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Discussion:

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