Vigilance and the Plague : France Confronted with the Epidemic Scourge during the 17th and 18th Centuries / ed. by Mark Sven Hengerer, Sébastien Demichel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Demichel, Sébastien, Editor.

Hengerer, Mark Sven, Editor.

Series:

Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance Series

Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance , 2749-8913 ; 6

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book focuses on the connection between vigilance and the plague in France throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. For more than three centuries, between the middle of the 14th century up until circa 1670, the prevalence of the plague in France was said to be endemic, before it then vanished from French territory. The Great Plague of Marseille (1720-1722, which also impacted the rest of Provence, the County of Venaissin and Languedoc) proved to be an exception. During that period, the fight against the plague was deemed a top-priority along the French coast, and health institutions, called bureaux de la santé, were developed. Contributions to this book primarily focus on health vigilance from the standpoint of how to prevent an epidemic and how to respond to a declared epidemic. Among the salient themes addressed are: communications between health and different state actors, prevailing religious and political norms, and the popular participation in the fight against the plague. The use of the concept of vigilance enables the mobilisation of often rather distant branches of history, namely institutional. social, religious history, the history of communication and the history of public health.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Foreword

Vigilance in Marseilles during the Plague Outbreak of 1720-1722

Religious Vigilance Before and After the 1720 Plague Outbreak in Provence and the Pontifical States

Protective Surveillance against the Invisible Enemy along the French Seaboards during the Eighteenth-Century

Correspondence on Public Health and Vigilance: Preventing Plague in France during the First Half of the Eighteenth-Century

The Public's Role in Vigilance against Plague and Political Authority in early Eighteenth-Century France

Between Crisis and Catastrophe.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2024)

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

ISBN:

9783111026169

3111026167

OCLC:

1432587813