Patterns of plague

• Verfasst von: Jones, Lori [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Patterns of plague
• Titelzusatz: changing ideas about plague in England and France, 1348-1750
• Institutionen: University of Ottawa [Grad-verleihende Institution]
• Verf.angabe: Lori Jones
• Verlagsort: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago
• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: xix, 382 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten, genealogische Tafel (schwarzweiß)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health and society ; 59
• Hochschulschrift: Dissertation, University Ottawa, 2022
• ISBN: 978-0-2280-1079-1
• ISBN: 978-0-2280-1080-7
• Schlagwörter: (g)Frankreich / (g)England / (s)Pest / (s)Fachliteratur / (z)Geschichte 1348-1750
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jones, Lori: Patterns of plague. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 382 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: NK 4760
• RVK-Notation: MT 11300
• RVK-Notation: XB 5200
• K10plus-PPN: 1809174163

Abstract

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.

Abstract

"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."

Abstract

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transcription and Translation -- Introduction Writing Plague -- 1 Creating the Plague Tract -- 2 Producing the Plague Tract -- 3 Setting Plague in Time -- 4 Seeing Plague in Space -- 5 Imagining the Oriental Plague -- Conclusion Rewriting Patterns of Plague -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.