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This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland.
List of contents
Acknowledgements, Meanings of Health in Early Modern Sweden - Charlotta Forss and Mari Eyice, Illness as Incapacity to Work in Early Modern Sweden - Anton Runesson, The Body in the Bathhouse: Health and Bathing in Early Modern Sweden - Charlotta Forss, 'Somewhat heated, quick and lively:' Humoral Explanations of the Learning Difficulties of Charles XI of Sweden (1655-1697) - Andreas Hellerstedt, Health in Body and Soul in a female Birgittine convent 1516-1522 - Gabriela Bjarne Larsson, Curing Madness and Mental Disturbances: Religious Healing Activities in Early Modern Swedish Local Communities - Riikka Miettinen, Not Quacks but Close: Reappraising the Role of Physicians on the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market - Hjalmar Fors, Gender, Health and Hair in Sweden, 1740 - 1840 - Hedvig Widmalm, Gender Norms and Early Modern Healthcare: Barber-surgeons in Sweden c. 1600-1900 - Maria Sjöberg, Epilogue: Epistemologies of Body and Soul: Considering the Early Modern and (late) Modern History of Health - Helena Tolvhed, List of tables and figure.
About the author
Mari Eyice is a Researcher at the Department of History, Stockholm University. In her current research, she explores how emotional practices were shaped in relation to disability in the early modern period. Her publications include 'Experiencing the dis/abled body in Early Modern Sweden: an exploration of perspectives' (
Memini: Travaux et Documents, vol. 28, 2022. Charlotta Forss is a Researcher at the Department of History, Stockholm University. Her current research project examines how notions of health and morality were renegotiated in the early modern bathhouse culture of Sweden and Finland. Her upcoming book,
Mapping the idea of North (Oxford: Bodleian Publishing, 2024) explores the connection between conceptions of climate and people on maps.
