Peregrine Horden is professor in

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. Horden's research is in the area of Mediterranean cities and medicine in the Middle Ages. He is a Fellow of

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, Oxford. The publication of his book ''The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History'' (co-written with Nicholas Purcell) was hailed as a 'notable intellectual event'. The book's main thesis is that the Mediterranean is a region made up of micro-regions. The book argues that the Mediterranean ought to be seen in terms of the ecological lines of force linking countless small regions and micro-economies together rather than in terms of a few famous metropoleis. Horden and Purcell stress the longues durées and insist that the different themes of history, i.e. politics, culture, economy, ideas and institutions must be studied in close association.

Selected publications

*''Companion to Mediterranean History'' Horden, P. (ed.) & Kinoshita, S. (ed.) 2014, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. *''The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice'' Horden, P. (ed.) & Hsu, E. (ed.) 2013, Berghahn. *''Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages'' Horden, P. 2008 Aldershot:

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. *''All Souls under the Ancien Régime: Politics, Learning and the Arts, c.1600–1850'' Horden, P. (ed.) & Green, S. J. D. (ed.) 2007 Oxford:

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. *''Freedom of Movement in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the Twentieth Harlaxton Symposium'' Horden, P. (ed.) 2007 Donington: Shaun Tyas. *''The Impact of Hospitals 300-2000'' Horden, P. (ed.), Henderson, J. (ed.) & Pastore, A. (ed.) 2007, Oxford: Peter Lang. *'' The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History'' Horden, P. & Purcell, N. 2000 Oxford: Blackwell.

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