Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence

Name: Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 9781107634367

ISBN-10: 1107634369

ISBN-13: 9781107634367

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ann G. Carmichael

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Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related strands of analysis. First, she discusses the extent to which true plague epidemics may have occurred, by considering what other infectious diseases contributed significantly to outbreaks of 'pestilence'. She finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics. She then shows how the differences in the plague reshaped the attitudes of Italian city-dwellers toward plague…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/8/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 198
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.594