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Disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds
Title
Disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds / edited by Lori Jones.
ISBN
0429055471
9780429055478
9780367151720
9780367151737
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, [2022].
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Notes
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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Summary
"This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognise no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Eastern Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Lori Jones is a medical historian at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses primarily on plague texts and images. She is the author of Patterns of Plague (2022) and co-editor of Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World (2022)"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Themes in environmental history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Diseases in historical environments / Lori Jones
For the good and pacific state of the people and the commune : healthscaping in Bologna and Siena before the Black Death (c. 1100-1348) / Anna M. Peterson and Courtney Krolikowski
The nourishment of infections : disease and waterscape in late medieval Valencia / Abigail Agresta
From helpful gardens to hateful words : moral and physical healthscaping in the late medieval Rhineland / Lucy Barnhouse
Turkey is almost a perpetual seminary of the plague : relocating pathogenic plague environments / Lori Jones
Managing disaster and understanding disease and the environment in the early eighteenth century / Cindy Ermus
Hot climates and disease : early modern European views of tropical environments / Guillaume Linte
Environments of health and disease in tropical Africa before the colonial era / Gérard Chouin
The rise and fall of a historical plague reservoir : the case of Ottoman Anatolia / Nükhet Varlik
Survival in the context of urbanization and environmental change in medieval and early modern London, England / Sharon N. DeWitte.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
History, Medieval
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