Patterns of plague : changing ideas about plague in England and France, 1348-1750 / Lori Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Lori (Medical historian), author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Through a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Using plague tracts to explore how medical and wider social understandings of the plague evolved, this innovative study considers the array of factors that influence how people think about epidemic disease.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transcription and Translation

Introduction Writing Plague

1 Creating the Plague Tract

2 Producing the Plague Tract

3 Setting Plague in Time

4 Seeing Plague in Space

5 Imagining the Oriental Plague

Conclusion Rewriting Patterns of Plague

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Jones, Lori Patterns of Plague

ISBN:

9780228012993

0228012996

9780228012986

0228012988

OCLC:

1292553435