'Healthy Sleep and the Early Modern Household'
Dr Handley’s most recent monograph, Sleep in Early Modern England, explores the evolution in patterns and practices of sleep, examining particularly the ways in which accepted notions of sleep were challenged by medical thinking in the mid-seventeenth century. Arguing that sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors, Dr Handley’s research reveals the way our notions of health, the body, magic, and science have intertwined and collided over our history.
Date:
22 February 2017, 17:00
Venue:
Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details:
Gibbs Room
Speaker:
Dr Sasha Handley (University of Manchester)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Laura Spence
