Society in an age of plague /

Described as 'a golden age of pathogens', the long fifteenth century was notable for a series of international, national and regional epidemics that had a profound effect upon the fabric of society. The impact of pestilence upon the literary, religious, social and political life of men, wo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clark, Linda, 1946- (Editor ), Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2013.
Colección:Fifteenth century.
Temas:
To 1509
Civilization, Medieval > 14th century.
Fifteenth century.
Renaissance.
Plague > Great Britain > History.
Plague > Europe > History.
Civilisation médiévale > 14e siècle.
Quinzième siècle.
Peste > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Peste > Europe > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Civilization, Medieval.
Plague.
Social conditions.
Great Britain > History > Lancaster and York, 1399-1485.
Great Britain > History > Henry VII, 1485-1509.
Great Britain > Social conditions > History > To 1500.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1399-1485 (Lancastre et York)
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1485-1509 (Henri VII)
Europe.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Looking for Yersinia Pestis : scientists, historians and the Black Death / J.L. Bolton
  • Pestilence and poetry : John Lydgate's Danse Macabre / Karen Smyth
  • Pilgrimage in 'an age of Plague' : seeking Canterbury's 'hooly blisful martir' in 1420 and 1470 / Sheila Sweetinburgh
  • An urban environment : Norwich in the fifteenth century / Elizabeth Rutledge
  • Mid-level officials in fifteenth-century Norwich / Samantha Sagui
  • Leprosy and public health in late medieval Rouen / Elma Brenner
  • Plague ordinances and the management of infectious diseases in northern French towns, c.1450-c.1560 / Neil Murphy
  • The Renaissance invention of quarantine / Jane Stevens Crawshaw
  • Coping with epidemics in Renaissance Italy : plague and the great pox / John Henderson
  • The historian and the laboratory : the Black Death disease / Samuel K. Cohn, Jnr.

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