Patterns of Plague : Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348-1750

Lori Jones

ISBN 10: 0228010802 / ISBN 13: 9780228010807

Verlag: Mcgill-Queen's University Press Jun 2022, 2022

Beschreibung

Neuware - Through a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors that influence how people think about epidemic disease.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780228010807

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Patterns of Plague : Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348-1750
• Verlag: Mcgill-Queen's University Press Jun 2022
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0228010802
• ISBN-13: 9780228010807
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 229B x 156 H x 30 T Millimeter Breite: 229 mm, Höhe: 156 mm, Tiefe: 30 mm
• Gewicht: 571 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not change significantly from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century, understandings of where and how plague originated did. Through an innovative reading of medical advice literature produced in England and France, Patterns of Plague explores these changing perceptions across four centuries. When plague appeared in the Mediterranean region in 1348, physicians believed the epidemic's timing and spread could be explained logically and the disease could be successfully treated. This confidence resulted in the widespread and long-term circulation of plague tracts, which described the causes and signs of the disease, offered advice for preventing infection, and recommended therapies in a largely consistent style. What, where, and especially who was blamed for plague outbreaks changed considerably, however, as political, religious, economic, intellectual, medical, and even publication circumstances evolved. Patterns of Plague sheds light on what was consistent about plague thinking and what was idiosyncratic to particular places and times, revealing the many factors that influence how people understand and respond to epidemic disease.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lori Jones is a historian of medieval and early modern medicine at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa.