Life in a Time of Pestilence - The Great Castilian Plague of 15961601

Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.

List of contents

Introduction, 1. Site 1: palace; 2. Site 2: road; 3. Site 3: wall; 4. Site 4: market; 5. Site 5: street; 6. Site 6: town hall; 7. Site 7: sickbed; Postmortem.

About the author

Ruth MacKay has worked as a university lecturer, newspaper editor, writer, translator, and interpreter, having been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fulbright Commission, amongst others. She is the author of The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile (Cambridge, 1999), 'Lazy Improvident People': Myth and Reality in the Writing of Spanish History (2006) and The Baker Who Pretended to be King of Portugal (2012).

Summary

From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague of 1596 was especially terrible. Rejecting traditional interpretations, this places the epidemic in communities' long-standing political practices, culture, and law to understand how it was experienced, understood, and managed by everyday people.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth MacKay, MacKay Ruth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108498203
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49820-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, Spain, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, c 1500 to c 1600, c 1590 to c 1599