Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

Author:   Lori Jones
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367151737


Pages:   230
Publication Date:   06 June 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lori Jones
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367151737


ISBN 10:   0367151731
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   06 June 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction: Diseases in Historical Environments Section I: Cleansing and Managing Local Airs, Waters, and Places 1. ""For the Good and Pacific State of the People and the Commune"": Healthscaping in Bologna and Siena before the Black Death (c. 1100–1348) 2. ""The Nourishment of Infections"": Disease and Waterscape in Late Medieval Valencia 3. From Helpful Gardens to Hateful Words: Moral and Physical Healthscaping in the Late Medieval Rhineland Section II: Recalibrating Airs, Waters, and Places: New Environments, New Mentalities 4. ""Turkey is Almost a Perpetual Seminary of the Plague"": Relocating Pathogenic Plague Environments 5. Managing Disaster and Understanding Disease and the Environment in the Early Eighteenth Century 6. ""Hot Climates"" and Disease: Early Modern European Views of Tropical Environments Section III: Science Meets Historical Disease Environments 7. Environments of Health and Disease in Tropical Africa before the Colonial Era 8. The Rise and Fall of a Historical Plague Reservoir: The Case of Ottoman Anatolia 9. Survival in the Context of Urbanization and Environmental Change in Medieval and Early Modern London, England"

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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) with Nükhet Varlık.

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