Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface xi
5. 1 The Literature of Plague and the Anxieties of Piety in Sixth-Century Byzantium 1
6. 2 Mice, Arrows, and Tumors. MEDIEVAL PLAGUE ICONOGRAPHY NORTH OF THE ALPS 23
7. 3 Visualizing Death. MEDIEVAL PLAGUES AND THE MACABRE 64
8. 4 The Making of a Plague Saint. SAINT SEBASTIAN ’S IMAGERY AND CULT BEFORE THE COUNTER -REFORMATION 90
9. 5 Protestants and Plague. THE CASE OF THE 1562/63 PEST IN NÜRNBERG 132
10. 6 The Canker Friar. PIETY AND INTRIGUE IN AN E RA OF NEW DISEASES 156
11. 7 Poussin’s The Plague at Ashdod. A WORK OF A RT IN MULTIPLE CONTEXTS 177
12. 8 Plague as Spiritual Medicine and Medicine as Spiritual Metaphor. THREE TREATISES BY ETIENNE BINET , S.J. (1569–1639) 224
13. 9 Pestilence, Apostasy, and Heresy in Seventeenth-Century Rome. DECIPHERING MICHAEL SWEERTS'S PLAGUE IN AN ANCIENT CITY 237
14. Contributors 313
15. Index 317