Hannah Newton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Newton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Newton |
| SIGNATURE | NEWTON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8639-2663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inside the Sickchamber in Early Modern England
This article transports the reader imaginatively into the early modern sickchamber, a space that has rarely attracted much historiographical attention. Focusing on England c.1600–1720, it reconstructs the patient’s sensory and emotional experiences of this environment. To do so, a material culture approach is adopted, which involves the analysis of six objects from the sickroom: a physic vessel, bedcurtains, clock, mattress, sheets, and blankets.…
Susan North, Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England
Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England, by Susan North, overturns the entrenched myth that people in the pre-modern past rarely washed. Drawing on an extraordinary array of sources, from probate inventories to extant linens, North challenges the prevailing scholarly narrative of hygiene associated with the French academic Georges Vigarello, which holds that until the eighteenth century, European societies repudiated the use of …
Love and Dishonour in Elizabethan England
One beautiful autumn afternoon in 1979, Professor Ralph Houlbrooke discovered a tightly rolled vellum strip of over five metres length in the old Public Record Office, Chancery Lane. It described in poignant detail the clandestine marriage and marital breakdown of a late-sixteenth-century couple from East Anglia, Charles and Elizabeth Forth (née Jerningham). Captivated immediately, Houlbrooke resolved to revisit the case in his retirement. Thirty…
Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650–1750
Conserving health in early modern culture
Ill Composed
Stephen Brogan. The Royal Touch in Early Modern England
It is hard to imagine a monarch today touching with bare hands the open sores of the sick. And yet, for over four hundred years this was precisely what English kings and queens did on a regular basis. In a ceremony known as “the royal touch,” monarchs stroked the ulcerated faces and necks of people suffering from the disease scrofula in the hope of bringing divine healing. Stephen Brogan traces the fortunes of this forgotten tradition in his debu…
Nature Concocts & Expels’
The 'golden saying' in early modern medicine was 'Nature is the healer of disease'. This article uncovers the meaning and significance of this forgotten axiom by investigating perceptions of the agents and physiological processes of recovery from illness in England, c .1580-1720. Drawing on sources such as medical texts and diaries, it shows that doctors and laypeople attributed recovery to three agents-God, Nature and the practitioner. While sch…
Physick and the Family
Parents of Poor Children in England, 1580-1800 Patricia CRAWFORD
Parents of Poor Children in England, 1580–1800 PATRICIA CRAWFORD Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 Pp. xiii + 361. £35.00. ISBN 978 0 19 920480 9 Patricia Crawford's final book, Parents of Poor
Kaara L. Peterson, Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England
Journal Article Kaara L. Peterson, Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England Get access Kaara L. Peterson, Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England, Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 217. £55. ISBN 978 07 54 669937 (hbk). Hannah Newton Hannah Newton University of Exeter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Pu…
Louise Hill Curth, The Care of Brute Beasts
The writings of medical historians have one thing in common: they focus on human beings. Louise Hill Curth's book, The Care of Brute Beasts, breaks this anthropocentric tradition, by exploring the medical beliefs and practices associated with ill animals in early modern England. Using vernacular medical manuals and almanacs from the period 1500–1800, the author challenges the common notion that ‘a system of veterinary medicine ... did not exist i…
Children's Physic
Historians of medicine, childhood and paediatrics have often assumed that early modern doctors neither treated children, nor adapted their medicines to suit the peculiar temperaments of the young. Through an examination of medical textbooks and doctors' casebooks, this article refutes these assumptions. It argues that medical authors and practising doctors regularly treated children, and were careful to tailor their remedies to complement the dis…
Inside the Sickchamber in Early Modern England
This article transports the reader imaginatively into the early modern sickchamber, a space that has rarely attracted much historiographical attention. Focusing on England c.1600–1720, it reconstructs the patient’s sensory and emotional experiences of this environment. To do so, a material culture approach is adopted, which involves the analysis of six objects from the sickroom: a physic vessel, bedcurtains, clock, mattress, sheets, and blankets.…
Children's Physic
Historians of medicine, childhood and paediatrics have often assumed that early modern doctors neither treated children, nor adapted their medicines to suit the peculiar temperaments of the young. Through an examination of medical textbooks and doctors' casebooks, this article refutes these assumptions. It argues that medical authors and practising doctors regularly treated children, and were careful to tailor their remedies to complement the dis…
Children's Physic
Historians of medicine, childhood and paediatrics have often assumed that early modern doctors neither treated children, nor adapted their medicines to suit the peculiar temperaments of the young. Through an examination of medical textbooks and doctors' casebooks, this article refutes these assumptions. It argues that medical authors and practising doctors regularly treated children, and were careful to tailor their remedies to complement the dis…
Kaara L. Peterson, Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England
Journal Article Kaara L. Peterson, Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England Get access Kaara L. Peterson, Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England, Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. 217. £55. ISBN 978 07 54 669937 (hbk). Hannah Newton Hannah Newton University of Exeter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Pu…
Louise Hill Curth, The Care of Brute Beasts
The writings of medical historians have one thing in common: they focus on human beings. Louise Hill Curth's book, The Care of Brute Beasts, breaks this anthropocentric tradition, by exploring the medical beliefs and practices associated with ill animals in early modern England. Using vernacular medical manuals and almanacs from the period 1500–1800, the author challenges the common notion that ‘a system of veterinary medicine ... did not exist i…
Parents of Poor Children in England, 1580-1800 Patricia CRAWFORD
Parents of Poor Children in England, 1580–1800 PATRICIA CRAWFORD Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 Pp. xiii + 361. £35.00. ISBN 978 0 19 920480 9 Patricia Crawford's final book, Parents of Poor
Physick and the Family
Nature Concocts & Expels’
The 'golden saying' in early modern medicine was 'Nature is the healer of disease'. This article uncovers the meaning and significance of this forgotten axiom by investigating perceptions of the agents and physiological processes of recovery from illness in England, c .1580-1720. Drawing on sources such as medical texts and diaries, it shows that doctors and laypeople attributed recovery to three agents-God, Nature and the practitioner. While sch…
Ill Composed
Stephen Brogan. The Royal Touch in Early Modern England
It is hard to imagine a monarch today touching with bare hands the open sores of the sick. And yet, for over four hundred years this was precisely what English kings and queens did on a regular basis. In a ceremony known as “the royal touch,” monarchs stroked the ulcerated faces and necks of people suffering from the disease scrofula in the hope of bringing divine healing. Stephen Brogan traces the fortunes of this forgotten tradition in his debu…
Conserving health in early modern culture
Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London, 1650–1750
Love and Dishonour in Elizabethan England
One beautiful autumn afternoon in 1979, Professor Ralph Houlbrooke discovered a tightly rolled vellum strip of over five metres length in the old Public Record Office, Chancery Lane. It described in poignant detail the clandestine marriage and marital breakdown of a late-sixteenth-century couple from East Anglia, Charles and Elizabeth Forth (née Jerningham). Captivated immediately, Houlbrooke resolved to revisit the case in his retirement. Thirty…
Susan North, Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England
Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England, by Susan North, overturns the entrenched myth that people in the pre-modern past rarely washed. Drawing on an extraordinary array of sources, from probate inventories to extant linens, North challenges the prevailing scholarly narrative of hygiene associated with the French academic Georges Vigarello, which holds that until the eighteenth century, European societies repudiated the use of …
Inside the Sickchamber in Early Modern England
This article transports the reader imaginatively into the early modern sickchamber, a space that has rarely attracted much historiographical attention. Focusing on England c.1600–1720, it reconstructs the patient’s sensory and emotional experiences of this environment. To do so, a material culture approach is adopted, which involves the analysis of six objects from the sickroom: a physic vessel, bedcurtains, clock, mattress, sheets, and blankets.…
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