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Florence under siege : surviving plague in an early modern city /
A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suff...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Plague and public health in Italy and Europe
- 2 The invasion of plague in early modern Italy
- 3 Medicine, the environment and the poor
- 4 Treating the body of the city and the body of the poor
- 5 The impact of plague and quarantine
- Part II Religion, isolation and survival / 6 Religion in the time of plague
- 7 Lazaretti and isolation: 'More feared than death itself'?
- 8 Surviving plague
- 9 Epilogue: The return and end of plague, 1632-3.