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The Fifteenth Century XII
Society in an Age of Plague
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2013
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Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as manifested throughout Europe.
Described as "a golden age of pathogens", the long fifteenth century was notable for a series of international, national and regional epidemics that had a profound effect upon the fabric of society. The impact of pestilence upon the literary, religious, social and political life of men, women and children throughout Europe and beyond continues to excite lively debate among historians, as the ten papers presented in this volume confirm. They deal with theresponse of urban communities in England, France and Italy to matters of public health, governance and welfare, as well as addressing the reactions of the medical profession to successive outbreaks of disease, and of individuals to the omnipresence of death, while two, very different, essays examine the important, if sometimes controversial, contribution now being made by microbiologists to our understanding of the Black Death.
Contributors: J.L. Bolton, Elma Brenner, Samuel Cohn, John Henderson, Neil Murphy, Elizabeth Rutledge, Samantha Sagui, Karen Smyth, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Sheila Sweetinburgh.
Described as "a golden age of pathogens", the long fifteenth century was notable for a series of international, national and regional epidemics that had a profound effect upon the fabric of society. The impact of pestilence upon the literary, religious, social and political life of men, women and children throughout Europe and beyond continues to excite lively debate among historians, as the ten papers presented in this volume confirm. They deal with theresponse of urban communities in England, France and Italy to matters of public health, governance and welfare, as well as addressing the reactions of the medical profession to successive outbreaks of disease, and of individuals to the omnipresence of death, while two, very different, essays examine the important, if sometimes controversial, contribution now being made by microbiologists to our understanding of the Black Death.
Contributors: J.L. Bolton, Elma Brenner, Samuel Cohn, John Henderson, Neil Murphy, Elizabeth Rutledge, Samantha Sagui, Karen Smyth, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Sheila Sweetinburgh.
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Contributor: Linda Clark
LINDA CLARK is Editor Emeritus at the History of Parliament.
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Contributor: Neil Murphy
NEIL MURPHY is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Northumbria University.
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Contributor: Sheila Sweetinburgh
Sheila Sweetinburgh is a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Kent History and Heritage at Canterbury Christ Church University and editor of Early Medieval Kent, 800-1220 (Boydell, 2016) and Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 (Boydell, 2018).
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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Contributors
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Preface
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
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Looking for Yersinia Pestis: Scientists, Historians and the Black Death
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Pestilence and Poetry: John Lydgate’s Danse Macabre
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Pilgrimage in ‘an Age of Plague’: Seeking Canterbury’s ‘hooly blisful martir’ in 1420 and 1470
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An Urban Environment: Norwich in the Fifteenth Century
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Mid-Level Officials in Fifteenth-Century Norwich
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Leprosy and Public Health in Late Medieval Rouen
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Plague Ordinances and the Management of Infectious Diseases in Northern French Towns, c.1450–c.1560
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The Renaissance Invention of Quarantine
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Coping with Epidemics in Renaissance Italy: Plague and the Great Pox
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The Historian and the Laboratory: The Black Death Disease
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Index
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Keywords for this book
The Fifteenth Century XII; Society; Age of Plague; Europe; Pathogens; Epidemics; Public Health; Governance; Welfare; Medical Profession; Death; Microbiologists; Black Death
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