Samuel K Cohn Jr

Cultures of Plague

Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians along with those outside the profession questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9780199574025
• ISBN-10: 0199574022
• Artikelnr.: 28532575

Autorenporträt

BA. Union College (Schnectady, NY); MA. University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1972; Ph.D Harvard, 1978; Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow since 1995. Author of eleven books, including Women in the Streets (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996); Creating the Florentine State (Cambridge UP, 1999); The Black Death Transformed (Oxford UP, 2002); and Lust for Liberty (Harvard UP, 2006). In 2008 I was 'Distinguished Visiting Professor' at the University of California, Berkeley. I am a member of the Royal Historical Society, the selection panel for the European Research Council, the advisory boards of the Oxford UP Online Bibliographies for the Renaissance and Reformation and 'Medieval Memoria Online' (NE). I am married with two children, aged 10 and 12. I am a hill runner and won the World Stone skimming competition for the Easdale islanders in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Sources and perspectives: A quantitative reckoning
2: Signs and symptoms
3: The impetus from Sicily
4: The Successo della peste
5: Liberation of the city and Plague poetry
6: Plague disputes and challenges to the old 'universals'
7: Plague and poverty
8: Towards a new public health consciousness in medicine
9: Plague psychology
Epilogue
Bibliography