An Urban History of the Plague: Socio-Economic, Political and Medical Impacts in a Scottish Community, 1500-1650

ISBN-13: 9781138192829 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 222 str.

Karen Jillings

Opis

As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects of the pre-modern world. This book examines the incidence and effects of plague in an early modern Scottish community by analysing bureaucratic, medical and social responses to epidemics in the north-east port of Aberdeen, focusing on the period 1500 to 1650.

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Spis treści

Chapter 1 Setting the scene: Aberdeen and the north-east, Chapter 2 Responses to plague in Scotland, Chapter 3 Plague in Aberdeen before 1550, Chapter 4 Plague in Aberdeen after 1550, Chapter 5 Aberdeen’s final plague: the outbreak of 1647–48, Chapter 6 Conclusion

O autorze

Karen Jillings is Senior Lecturer in History at Massey University, New Zealand, where she has taught since 2004. She has published on aspects of medicine and society in pre-modern Scotland.