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Understanding and Responding to the French Pox in Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg 1495 1700
Author | : Monica Catherine O'Brien |
Publsiher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3031469240 |
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This book traces how city councils, medical practitioners and urban society developed their understandings of and responses to the ‘French pox,’ a pandemic that swept through Europe during the winter of 1494-1495, and is now more commonly known as syphilis. Focusing on the disease in Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg, two major cities in early modern Germany (1495-1700), and using a range of primary sources, including government records, medical publications, and writings of the sick, the author argues that the city councils’ responses to the disease, the orders that they issued to control its spread and their provision of poor relief, were driven by three key factors: contagion, practicality (considerations on finances and resources), and morality. Their understandings of these elements led to a response that prioritised the provision of aid to support the sick as a way to control the disease, protect the economy and population, and satisfy moral beliefs. Moreover, the book demonstrates the significant and enduring influence of non-sexual contagion theories - the belief that the French pox spread through mechanisms like shared clothing, cutlery, and money - in law, medical thinking, and the self-portrayals of the sick. Making an important contribution to our understanding of early modern contagion theories and their role in municipal authorities’ responses to disease, this timely book will provide new insights for early modern historians researching the social history of medicine and welfare.
The Great Pox
Author | : Jon Arrizabalaga,John Henderson,Roger Kenneth French |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300069340 |
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A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than on a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as 'syphilis'.
Historical Dialogue Analysis
Author | : Andreas H. Jucker,Gerd Fritz,Franz Lebsanft |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1999-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027283795 |
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Historical dialogue analysis is a new branch of historical pragmatics. The papers of this interdisciplinary volume contribute to charting the developing field by presenting a survey of recent research from the different traditions of English, German and Romance language studies. Both the introductory paper by the editors and the individual papers deal with fundamental theoretical questions, e.g. the question of types of historical developments in dialogue forms, and methodological problems, e.g. the finding and interpretation of relevant data. The fifteen case studies presented in this volume provide a wide range of new data. The range of topics includes the pragmatic form of 16th century religious controversies in Germany, forms of polite answers in Early Modern German conversation culture, forms of dialogue in Early Modern English medical writing, learning English through dialogues in the 16th century, structures of bargaining dialogues in Late Medieval French, and reflections of spontaneous dialogue in Early Romance texts.
English Book Collectors
Author | : William Younger Fletcher |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-07-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783752372854 |
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Reproduction of the original: English Book Collectors by William Younger Fletcher
Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Claire L. Carlin |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2005-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230522619 |
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The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.
The Popes and Science
Author | : James Joseph Walsh |
Publsiher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1020103833 |
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A comprehensive historical account of the relationship between the papacy and science throughout the ages, written by the renowned scholar James Joseph Walsh. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Rats Lice and History
Author | : Hans Zinsser |
Publsiher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781412815710 |
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When Rats, Lice and History appeared in 1935, Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about historical events. Although he had published under a pseudonym, virtually all of his previous writings had dealt with infections and immunity and had appeared either in medical and scientific journals or in book format. Today he is best remembered as the author of Rats, Lice, and History, which gone through multiple editions and remains a masterpiece of science writing for a general readership. To Zinsser, scientific research was high adventure and the investigation of infectious disease, a field of battle. Yet at the same time he maintained a love of literature and philosophy. His goal in Rats, Lice and History was to bring science, philosophy, and literature together to establish the importance of disease, and especially epidemic infectious disease, as a major force in human affairs. Zinsser cast his work as the "biography" of a disease. In his view, infectious disease simply represented an attempt of a living organism to survive. From a human perspective, an invading pathogen was abnormal; from the perspective of the pathogen it was perfectly normal. This book is devoted to a discussion of the biology of typhus and history of typhus fever in human affairs. Zinsser begins by pointing out that the louse was the constant companion of human beings. Under certain conditions–to wash or to change clothing–lice proliferated. The typhus pathogen was transmitted by rat fleas to human beings, who then transmitted it to other humans and in some strains from human to human. Rats, Lice and History is a tour de force. It combines Zinsser's expertise in biology with his broad knowledge of the humanities
Cultures of Plague
Author | : Samuel Kline Cohn |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199574025 |
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This title highlights the impact that the plague epidemic in Italy between 1575 and 1578 had on the medical writers and practitioners of the time. He asserts that these writers anticipated modern epidemiology and created the structure for plague classics of the next century.