Disease and Society in Premodern England

ISBN-13: 9781032104126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 278 str.

John Theilmann

Opis

Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500-c.1600, with the major focus from the eleventh century onward.

Spis treści

1. Finding the Impact of Disease in Premodern England  2. Human Impacts on Health in Premodern England  3. The Everyday Threat of Infectious Disease  4. Epidemic Disease and Its Arrival in England  5. The Second Plague Pandemic and the Demographic Crisis It Produced  6. Responses to the Plague  7. New Diseases at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The Mystery of the English Sweat  8. New Diseases at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The Certainty of Syphilis, the Great Pox  9. A New Era for Epidemic Disease  10. Disease and its Impact at the Beginning of a New Era

O autorze

John Theilmann is Andrew Helmus Distinguished Professor of History and Politics at Converse University. He has published several articles and book chapters dealing with topics in medieval history and the history of diseases, and a book and several articles in political science dealing with congressional elections.