Plague in the Early Modern World

A Documentary History
Herausgeber: Bell, Dean Phillip

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781138362499
• ISBN-10: 1138362492
• Artikelnr.: 54346105

Autorenporträt

Dean Phillip Bell is President/CEO and Professor of Jewish History at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. His publications include Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany, Jews in the Early Modern World, and Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Identity. He is also editor of The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The bubonic plague: historical overview and scope
Chapter 2: Religious understanding of and response to plague
Chapter 3: Medical understanding of and responses to plague
Chapter 4: Political and policy responses to plague
Chapter 5: Social responses to plague: memory, society, and culture