Plague in the Early Modern World - A Documentary History

Plague in the Early Modern World now in a second edition, presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.

List of contents

List of figures and tables
List of figures and tables (sources)
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Modern medicine and conditions
Vulnerability and resilience: conceptual categories and interpretive framework
1: The bubonic plague: historical overview and scope
2: Religious understanding of and response to plague
3: Medical understanding of and responses to plague
4: Political and policy responses to plague
5: Social responses to plague: memory, society, and culture
Bibliography
Works cited
Further reading
Index

About the author

Dean Phillip Bell is President/CEO and Professor of Jewish History at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany, Jews in the Early Modern World, Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Identity, and (with Michael S. Hogue) Interreligious Resilience: Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography, and co-editor (with Keren Eva Fraiman) of The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the Twenty-First Century.

Product details

• Authors: Dean Phillip (Spertus Institute Bell
• Assisted by: Bell Dean Phillip (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 12.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032955971
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295597-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, General & world history, History of Medicine, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history