"The burthen of the mortal body: Life, death, sickness and health in the Early Modern period" to be held at the University of Exeter on 23-24 August 2010 (360G-Wellcome-091770_Z_10_Z)

The conference has four main objectives: Firstly to identify, promote and publish new research in this subject area; Secondly, to introduce early career scholars working in the same field, and create and develop a network of scholars involved in researching the body, health, sickness and death in the early modern period; Thirdly, to develop further the historical understanding of the body, and sickness, within the context of early modern social, cultural and religious concerns; Finally, through discussion open up new research questions and develop new approaches, across .a range of disciplines, to the study of the body and its ailments across the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.