Disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds
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Disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds
（Themes in environmental history）
Routledge, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: Diseases in historical environments / Lori Jones
- "For the good and pacific state of the people and the commune" : healthscaping in Bologna and Siena before the Black Death (c. 1100-1348) / Anna M. Peterson and Courtney Krolikowski
- "The nourishment of infections" : disease and waterscape in late medieval Valencia / Abigail Agresta
- From helpful gardens to hateful words : moral and physical healthscaping in the late medieval Rhineland / Lucy Barnhouse
- "Turkey is almost a perpetual seminary of the plague" : relocating pathogenic plague environments / Lori Jones
- Managing disaster and understanding disease and the environment in the early eighteenth century / Cindy Ermus
- "Hot climates" and disease : early modern European views of tropical environments / Guillaume Linte
- Environments of health and disease in tropical Africa before the colonial era / Gérard Chouin
- The rise and fall of a historical plague reservoir : the case of Ottoman Anatolia / Nükhet Varlik
- Survival in the context of urbanization and environmental change in medieval and early modern London, England / Sharon N. DeWitte
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The virtue of an interdisciplinary and multi-authored collection such as this one is that it can gather the necessary range of expertise to look into the complexities of disease and environment from different perspectives - allowing for both a scientifically- and culturally-minded readership to find interest in the discussion of epidemic and other disease.
The volume brings environmental history into dialogue with the histories of medicine, science, and environmental thought, reflecting one of the best new trends in current scholarship on the relationship between humanity and non-human Nature.
This edited volume will be the first to provide students and scholars with a comprehensive look at both how the environment is implicated in pre-modern disease regimes and how contemporary populations made efforts to mitigate the challenges that these disease regimes generated. It is also the first volume to take a long view by examining the environment-disease relationship across the traditional medieval-early modern divide to show both change and continuity.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Diseases in Historical Environments Section I: Cleansing and Managing Local Airs, Waters, and Places 1. "For the Good and Pacific State of the People and the Commune": Healthscaping in Bologna and Siena before the Black Death (c. 1100-1348) 2. "The Nourishment of Infections": Disease and Waterscape in Late Medieval Valencia 3. From Helpful Gardens to Hateful Words: Moral and Physical Healthscaping in the Late Medieval Rhineland Section II: Recalibrating Airs, Waters, and Places: New Environments, New Mentalities 4. "Turkey is Almost a Perpetual Seminary of the Plague": Relocating Pathogenic Plague Environments 5. Managing Disaster and Understanding Disease and the Environment in the Early Eighteenth Century 6. "Hot Climates" and Disease: Early Modern European Views of Tropical Environments Section III: Science Meets Historical Disease Environments 7. Environments of Health and Disease in Tropical Africa before the Colonial Era 8. The Rise and Fall of a Historical Plague Reservoir: The Case of Ottoman Anatolia 9. Survival in the Context of Urbanization and Environmental Change in Medieval and Early Modern London, England
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