Alexandra Bamji

Biographic Data

ID5051524
NAMEAlexandra Bamji
GIVEN NAMESAlexandra
FAMILY NAMEBamji
SIGNATUREBAMJI A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leeds
ORCID0000-0003-3256-7979
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Blowing Smoke Up Your Arse

    Alexandra BamjiARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2020

    This article examines resuscitation practices in the second half of the eighteenth century, especially the new use of tobacco smoke enema machines on people who had been extracted from water with no signs of life. Drownings accounted for a small number and proportion of urban deaths, yet governments promoted resuscitation techniques at considerable expense in order to prevent such deaths. The visibility of drowning in religious, urban, and civic …

  • The Man Who Crucified Himself

    Alexandra BamjiARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2020

    Reviewed by: The Man Who Crucified Himself: Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Maria Böhmer Alexandra Bamji Maria Böhmer. The Man Who Crucified Himself: Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Clio Medica, vol. 97. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 313 pp. Ill. (978-90-04-35359-6). One morning in Venice in July 1805, a shoemaker was found hanging out of the window of his room, nailed to a wooden cross. Mattio Lovat was…

  • Marginalia and mortality in early modern Venice

    Open AccessAlexandra BamjiARTICLERenaissance Studies2019

    This article evaluates the significance of marginal images in Venice’s civic death registers. Throughout the early modern period, clerks drew attention to a small proportion of deaths in the city by supplementing the textual entry about the deceased individual with a drawing in the margin adjacent to the entry. This study assesses the incidence, iconography and uniqueness of these images, and compares them with visual marginalia in other early mo…

  • Health Passes, Print and Public Health in Early Modern Europe

    Open AccessAlexandra BamjiARTICLESocial History of Medicine2017Cited by: 2

    Early modern governments produced a wide range of printed texts as part of their public health strategies, including broadsheets, flysheets and pamphlets. This study focuses on health passes, a form of ephemeral print which asserted that the bearer had travelled from a city which was free from plague. Passes were printed forms with textual, iconographic and material features which sought to enhance their authority, credibility and usability. Comp…

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation

    Alexandra Bamji, Geert H Janssen et al.BOOKAshgate Research Companion to the…2016

    Alexandra Bamji, Geert H. Janssen, Mary Laven (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation, Farnham (Asghate Publishing) 2013, XX–488 p., 21 b&w ill., 3 maps ill., ISBN 978-1-4094-2373-7, GBP 85,00.

  • Medical Care in Early Modern Venice

    Alexandra BamjiARTICLEJournal of Social History2016

    In early modern Venice, a wide range and large number of people offered care to the sick. This study utilizes Venice's civic death registers to assess when and why the sick and dying accessed medical care, and how this changed over the course of the early modern period. The detailed registers permit consideration of the profile of medical practitioners, key aspects of patient identity, the involvement of institutions in the provision of medical c…

  • Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy, by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey

    Open AccessAlexandra BamjiARTICLEThe English Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy, by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey Get access Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy, by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2013; pp. 312. £65). Alexandra Bamji Alexandra Bamji University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 544, June 2015, Pages 744–746, https://doi.org/10.10…

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation

    Alexandra Bamji, Geert H Janssen et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2015

    Bamji, Alexandra, Geert H. Janssen, and Mary Laven, eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary (I)), on Érudit

  • Rosa Salzberg, Ephemeral City

    Open AccessAlexandra BamjiARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2015

  • Plague Hospitals

    Open AccessAlexandra BamjiARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014

    Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw. Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice. The History of Medicine in Context. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. xiv + 290 pp. $124.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6958-6. - Volume 67 Issue 1

  • Morti improvvise

    Alexandra BamjiARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2011

    Reviewed by: Morti improvvise: Medicina e religione nel Settecento Alexandra Bamji Maria Pia Donato. Morti improvvise: Medicina e religione nel Settecento. Rome: Carocci editore, 2010. 239 pp. €20.00 (978-88-430-5503-6). Sudden death endangered the soul as well as the body, which risked burial in unconsecrated ground. An “epidemic” of sudden deaths in Rome between 1705 and 1706 sparked widespread fear, and Pope Clement XI ordered a public inquest…

  • Laura J. McGough, Gender, Sexuality and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice

    Alexandra BamjiARTICLESocial History of Medicine2011

  • The Ceremonial City

    Open AccessAlexandra BamjiARTICLERenaissance Studies2010

  • Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany

    Alexandra BamjiARTICLEGerman History2010

    Journal Article Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany Get access Negotiating the French Pox in Early Modern Germany. By Claudia Stein. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate. 2009. x + 241 pp. £60 (hardback). Alexandra Bamji Alexandra Bamji University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 28, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 228–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghp115 Published:…

  • Family Memoirs from Venice (15 th –17 th Centuries)

    Open AccessAlexandra BamjiARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2010

    James S. Grubb, ed. Family Memoirs from Venice (15th–17th Centuries). Fonti per la storia di Venezia. Sezione V–Fondi Vari. Rome: Viella S.r.l., 2009. li + 400 pp. + 16 color pls. index. illus. €40. ISBN: 978–88–8334–409–1. - Volume 63 Issue 4

  • Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

    Open AccessAlexandra BamjiARTICLEJournal of History2008Cited by: 10

  • The Control of Space

    Alexandra BamjiARTICLEItalian Studies2007

    Venice, a city precariously perched on wooden poles, has always been distinguished for its urban environment. In the early modern period, the city's elites attempted to control multiple aspects of the urban landscape, both the physical environment — in terms of land, air and waters — and also the people within the city. This article argues that the key factors which motivated the definition of space were often tied to concerns about health. It su…