Author: Nina Ansley Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465322809 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 821
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A page-turner of colorful intrigue, passion and honor as one mans life interweaves through one of the most interesting times in European history. Compelling, dynamic, action-fi lled story with gorgeous scenes, suspenseful episodes! Certain poignant aspects of the plot-line still haunt me after the read. Pamela Jaye Smith, internationally known story consultant to the Hollywood film industry.
Author: Sébastien Demichel Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3111026167 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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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.
Author: Nicole Archambeau Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501753673 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 184
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In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual sicknesses caused by excessive sin, and they sought cures in confession. Archambeau draws on a rich evidentiary base of sixty-eight narrative testimonials from the canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel, which was held in the market town of Apt in 1363. Each witness in the proceedings had lived through the outbreaks of plague in 1348 and 1361, as well as the violence inflicted by mercenaries unemployed during truces in the Hundred Years' War. Consequently, their testimonies unexpectedly reveal the importance of faith and the role of affect in the healing of body and soul alike. Faced with an unprecedented cascade of crises, the inhabitants of Provence relied on saints and healers, their worldview connecting earthly disease and disaster to the struggle for their eternal souls. Souls under Siege illustrates how medieval people approached sickness and uncertainty by using a variety of remedies, making clear that "healing" had multiple overlapping meanings in this historical moment.
Author: Neil Murphy Publisher: ISBN: 1009233823 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 84
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This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. While the historiography on plague argues that the plague of Provence in the 1720s represented the development of a new and 'modern' form of public health care under the control of the absolutist monarchy, it shows that the key elements in this system were established centuries earlier because of the actions of urban governments. It moves away from taking a medical focus on plague to examine the institutions that managed disease control in early modern France. In doing so, it seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s. It shows that the French developed a polycentric system of plague care which drew on the input of numerous actors combat the disease.
Author: Pichatty de Croislainte Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 77
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Pichatty de Croislainte's 'A Brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague' provides a haunting account of the devastating impact of the plague on a city. Written in a straightforward and factual style, the book details the horrors of the epidemic and the chaos that ensued in Marseilles. De Croislainte's descriptive prose creates a vivid picture of the suffering and despair that gripped the city during this dark period in history, making it a valuable primary source for scholars of literature and history. The book is a rare blend of personal observation and historical documentation, shedding light on the human experience of a pandemic in the 18th century. De Croislainte's meticulous attention to detail and vivid storytelling make this book a compelling read for anyone interested in the history of epidemics and their impact on society. With a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of human nature, de Croislainte provides a gripping account of one city's struggle against a deadly disease, offering valuable insights into the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Readers interested in the intersection of literature, history, and public health will find this book to be a compelling and thought-provoking read.
Author: Nükhet Varlik Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107013380 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 355
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This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state.
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