Black Death Transformed Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe

Name: Black Death Transformed Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe
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ISBN: 9780340706473

ISBN-10: 0340706473

ISBN-13: 9780340706473

Edition: 2001

Authors: Samuel K. Cohn

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This volume offers alternative conclusions about the cultural and psychological reactions to the plague, why it led more often to Renaissance optimism than to widespread despair as so often concluded.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 1/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




The Middle Ages confront the Twentieth Century


Scientists square the circle


The conquest of plague


Historians square the circle



The Black Death: Signs and Symptoms


Signs: chronicles, plague tracts and saints' lives


Symptoms



The Black Death: Epidemiology


Chroniclers and doctors


Climate


Cycles and Trends


Conclusion


Culture and Psychology



Miraculous Plague Cures



List of Chronicles, annales and calendars



Plague tracts from Sudhoff


Bibliography