Disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds /

"This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognise no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Eastern Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas....

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Group Author: Jones, Lori (Medical historian)
Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2022.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Themes in environmental history
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Summary: "This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognise no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Eastern Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas."--
Carrier Form: xv, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780367151720
0367151723
9780367151737
0367151731
Index Number: RB152
CLC: R12
Call Number: R12/D611
Contents: 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.