The Fifteenth Century XII - Society in an Age of Plague

Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as manifested throughout Europe.

List of contents

Introduction - Carole Rawcliffe
Looking for Yersinia Pestis: Scientists, Historians and the Black Death - Jim L Bolton
Pestilence and Poetry: John Lydgate's Danse Macabre - Karen Smyth
Pilgrimage in 'an Age of Plague': Seeking Canterbury's 'hooly blisful martir' in 1420 and 1470 - Sheila Sweetinburgh
An Urban Environment: Norwich in the Fifteenth Century - Elizabeth Rutledge
Mid-Level Officials in Fifteenth-Century Norwich - Samantha Sagui
Leprosy and Public Health in Late Medieval Rouen - Elma Brenner
Plague Ordinances and the Management of Infectious Diseases in Northern French Towns, c.1450 - c.1560 - Neil Murphy
The Renaissance Invention of Quarantine - Jane Stevens Crawshaw
Coping with Epidemics in Renaissance Italy: Plague and the Great Pox - John Henderson
The Historian and the Laboratory: The Black Death Disease - Samuel K. Cohn

About the author

Linda Clark, Carole Rawcliffe

Product details

• Authors: Linda Clark
• Assisted by: Linda Clark (Editor), Carole Rawcliffe (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9781843838753
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-875-3
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Series: The Fifteenth Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Geschichte der Medizin, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History