Plague in the Early Modern World: A Documentary History

ISBN-13: 9781138362499 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str.

Dean Phillip Bell

Opis

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. 

Spis treści

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