The Plague Files : Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville /

In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city faced a brush with deadly contagion, including the plague; the billeting of troops in preparation for Philip II's invasion of Portugal; crop failure and famine followi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cook, Alexandra Parma
Otros Autores: Cook, Noble David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Alltag
Epidemie
Plague.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
Medecine > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Peste > Espagne > Seville > Histoire > 16e siecle.
History, 16th Century
Plague > history
Plague > Spain > Seville > History > 16th century.
Sevilla
Spain > Seville.
Spain
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Plague in Lisbon
  • Caring for sick soldiers
  • Averting a Morisco Crisis
  • Sickness in the jail
  • This sickness of Catarrh
  • Sanitation in the city
  • Tussle with the Inquisition
  • Signs of contagious disease
  • Caring for the poor and needy
  • Flee fast, far, and for a long time
  • Much money being spent
  • Almost a miracle
  • Accusations of mismanagement
  • Settling accounts
  • A gift to the city
  • Bulls and jousting
  • Damages and losses
  • A particular commission
  • Some recover, the rest die
  • Enter and trade
  • Looking death in the eye
  • Jumping over the wall
  • Evil men
  • Denying the Plague
  • Circumventing the cordon sanitaire
  • Death of Dr. Centurio
  • Swelling in the right thigh
  • Fleeing disease
  • Posting guard
  • Covered with blackish spots
  • Grave consequences
  • Trade is impeded
  • A pesthouse for the poor
  • Conflict with town officials
  • Epilogue: Gentleman of Prudence.

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