Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession, questioned the foundations [...]
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Released: June 2011 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
A new approach to the political history of the Renaissance, examining the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state.
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Released: 1999 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
Over its first hundred years, adaptation to the new microbial plague enemy cam with striking speed and success. In place of despondency came a new sense of confidence. From God and the stars, contemporaries turned to cures and socially grounded explanations. And in this [...]
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Released: 30.01.2003 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes to the reader; Maps; 1. Before the Black Death, 1245 to 1348; 2. From the Black Death to 1378; 3. The Jacquerie; 4. The Revolt of the Ciompi, 1378-1382; 5. The cluster north of the Alps, 1378-82; Epilogue: After the cluster, 1382 to [...]
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Released: 09.12.2004 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)