Patterns of Plague Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348-1750.
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 i...
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McGill-Queen's University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.