Florence under siege : surviving plague in an early modern city / John Henderson.
Pubblicazione:
New Haven : Yale university press, 2019.
Descrizione fisica:
XVIII, 363, p. [32] p. di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of plates, maps, figures and tables. Abbreviations, currency, weights and measures. Acknowledgements. 1. Plague and public health in Italy and Europe. Pt. 1. Florence under siege: coping with plague: 2. The invasion of plague in early modern Italy 3. Medicine, the environment and the poor 4. Treating the body of the city and the body of the poor 5. The impact of plague and quarantine. Pt. 2. Religion, isolation and survival: 6. Religion in the time of plague 7. Lazzaretti and isolation: more feared than death itself? 8. Surviving plague 9. Epilogue: The return and end of plague, 1632-3. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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