About the lecture

In this module, we look at how public health functioned and developed in the renaissance in England. We examine two questions: (i) What was the aim of public health in this period?; and (ii) why was it a priority of governments?

About the lecturer

Jane Stevens-Crawshaw is a senior lecturer in early modern European history at Oxford Brookes University. She specialises in the history of renaissance Europe with a focus on the impact of the developing ideas about 'cleanliness' on the public health. She has also written on the establishment of plague hospitals in Europe.