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Informationen zum Autor Béatrice Delaurenti is Associate Professor in History at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris. Thomas Le Roux is Associate Professor of Research in History at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and coauthor (with François Jarrige) of The Contamination of the Earth (MIT Press). Delaurenti and Le Roux are Directors of the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques) of the EHESS. Klappentext "An A-Z glossary of "cultures of contagion", conceived literally and metaphorically, and approaxched from multiple historical perspectives"-- Zusammenfassung Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Cultures of Contagion recounts episodes in the history of contagions, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It considers contagion not only in the medical sense but also as a process, a metaphor, and an interpretive model--as a term that describes not only the transmission of a virus but also the propagation of a phenomenon. The authors describe a wide range of social, cultural, political, and anthropological instances through the prism of contagion--from anti-Semitism to migration, from the nuclear contamination of the planet to the violence of Mao's Red Guard. The book proceeds glossary style, with a series of short texts arranged alphabetically, beginning with an entry on aluminum and "environmental contagion" and ending with a discussion of writing and "textual resemblance" caused by influence, imitation, borrowing, and plagiarism. The authors--leading scholars associated with the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques), Paris--consider such topics as the connection between contagion and suggestion, "waltzmania" in post-Terror Paris, the effect of reading on sensitive imaginations, and the contagiousness of yawning. They take two distinct approaches: either examining contagion and what it signified contemporaneously, or deploying contagion as an interpretive tool. Both perspectives illuminate unexpected connections, unnoticed configurations, and invisible interactions. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION CONTAGION: ITS HISTORY AND SOME HISTORIOGRAPHICAL EXAMPLES FROM ANTIQUITY TO TODAY 1 ALUMINUM THE HYPOTHESIS OF AN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE EPIDEMIC? 19 ANALOGY MINIATURIZATION, MULTIPLICATION, AND FIGURATION IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTENDOM 25 ANTI-SEMITISM ANTI-SEMITISM AS A DISEASE: THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF A METAPHOR 33 ARISTOCRACY TAINTED BLOOD AND ARISTOCRATIC VALUES IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN 39 BELIEF LIBERTINISM AND ATHEISM (SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURY) 45 CALENDAR CIRCULATION AND MISUSE OF A MEDIEVAL ICONOGRAPHICAL MODEL 51 CARTOGRAPHY JOHN SNOW AND THE TOPOGRAPHY OF CHOLERA 57 CLOTHING MEDIEVAL SUMPTUARY LAWS AS MEASURES OF SOCIAL CONTAINMENT? 65 COLONIZATION SOCIAL CONTAGION AS A CIVILIZING TOOL 71 CONSUMPTION ADDICTION TO GEOPHAGY DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE 77 CONTROVERSY PROPAGATION OF THE QUARREL BETWEEN RABBIS JACOB EMDEN AND JONATHAN EYBESCHUTZ 83 CROWD GUSTAVE LE BON, SIGMUND FREUD, GABRIEL TARDE BETWEEN SUGGESTION AND CONTAGION 89 DANCE WALTZMANIA IN THE PARIS PLEASURE GARDENS 95 EPIDEMIC BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (NINETEENTH CENTURY): FROM THE MIASMA TO THE MICROBE 103 EX-VOTO VOTIVE AND POLITICAL ACCUMULATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPACE 107 HERESY FIGHTING THE CRYPTO-PROTESTANT “INFESTATION” UNDER THE HABSBURG MONARCHY 115 ICONOGRAPHY DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION AT WORK IN THE REPRESENTATION OF THE HELLMOUTH 121 INNOVATION ORGAN BUILDING AND DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES IN THE RENAISSANCE 129 JUDEITY IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS: JEWS IN FRANCE ...
