Plague in the Early Modern World -

Plague in the Early Modern World

A Documentary History

Dean Phillip Bell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
286 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-36248-2 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.

During the early modern period frequent and recurring outbreaks of plague and other epidemics around the world helped to define local identities and they simultaneously forged and subverted social structures, recalibrated demographic patterns, dictated political agendas, and drew upon and tested religious and scientific worldviews. By gathering texts from diverse and often obscure publications and from areas of the globe not commonly studied, Plague in the Early Modern World provides new information and a unique platform for exploring early modern world history from local and global perspectives and examining how early modern people understood and responded to plague at times of distress and normalcy.

Including source materials such as memoirs and autobiographies, letters, histories, and literature, as well as demographic statistics, legislation, medical treatises and popular remedies, religious writings, material culture, and the visual arts, the volume will be of great use to students and general readers interested in early modern history and the history of disease.

Dean Phillip Bell is President/CEO and Professor of Jewish History at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. His publications include Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany, Jews in the Early Modern World, and Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Identity. He is also editor of The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography.

Introduction; Chapter 1: The bubonic plague: historical overview and scope; Chapter 2: Religious understanding of and response to plague; Chapter 3: Medical understanding of and responses to plague; Chapter 4: Political and policy responses to plague; Chapter 5: Social responses to plague: memory, society, and culture

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 8 Tables, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10 1-138-36248-4 / 1138362484
ISBN-13 978-1-138-36248-2 / 9781138362482
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