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Patterns of Plague

Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348?1750

June 15, 2022 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9780228010807
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Description

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.

About this Author

Lori Jones is a historian of medieval and early modern medicine at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa.

ISBN: 9780228010807
Format: Trade paperback
Series: McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Pages: 408
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2022-06-15

Reviews

"Not only an excellent insight into how plague tracts can be reinterpreted, but ... an example of how historical sources more generally can be reassessed in fruitful and fascinating ways." Medicine, Conflict, Survival

"Patterns of Plague is an innovative, well-crafted and important study in intellectual, cultural, and medical history. Jones's writing is sophisticated and her interpretations original and well-substantiated." Mary Lindemann, University of Miami

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