John Henderson

John Henderson is one of the leading historians of medicine in Renaissance and early modern Tuscany. He is Professor of Italian Renaissance History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.  Professor Henderson has published a wide range of books and articles on the social, religious and medical history of Medieval and Renaissance Tuscany. Major monographs include: Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence (1994, 1997, 1998 in Italian); The Great Pox. The French Disease in Renaissance Europe, with J. Arrizabalaga and R. French (1997); The Renaissance Hospital. Healing the Body and Healing the Soul (1997); Florence under Siege (2019); and, most recently, The French Disease in Italy (2024).