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19 produkter
Cultures of Plague
Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
E-bok, 2009
705 kr
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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the …
Cultures of Plague
Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
E-bok, 2011
705 kr
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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the …
Epidemics
Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
E-bok, 2018
567 kr
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By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics …
Epidemics
Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
E-bok, 2018
567 kr
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By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics …
Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy
Inbunden, 2021
1586 kr
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Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy is the first study to analyse popular protest across the Italian peninsula and the Venetian colonies during the early modern period, 1494 to 1559. Drawing on over 100 contemporary chronicles and diaries, the fifty-eight volumes of …
Epidemics
Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS
Inbunden, 2018
827 kr
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By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics …
Cultures of Plague
Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2009
1472 kr
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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the …
Cultures of Plague
Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance
Häftad, 2011
857 kr
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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the …
Black Death Transformed
Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe
Häftad, 2003
573 kr
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The Black Death in Europe, from its arrival in 1347-52 through successive waves into the early modern period, has been seriously misunderstood. It is clear from the compelling evidence presented in this revolutionary account that the Black Death was almost any disease other than the rat-based …
Creating the Florentine State
Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434
Häftad, 2008
738 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the political history of the Renaissance: its analysis of government is embedded in the context of geography and social conflict. Instead of the usual institutional history, it examines the Florentine state from the mountainous periphery - a …
Creating the Florentine State
Peasants and Rebellion, 1348-1434
Inbunden, 1999
1526 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive approach to the study of the political history of the Renaissance: its analysis of government is embedded in the context of geography and social conflict. Instead of the usual institutional history, it examines the Florentine state from the mountainous periphery - a …
Lust for Liberty
The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200–1425
Häftad, 2008
289 kr
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Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts …
Black Death and the Transformation of the West
Av David Herlihy, Samuel K. Cohn Jr.
Häftad, 1997
245 kr
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In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of …
Women in the Streets
Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy
Häftad, 1997
401 kr
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"These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy," writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., "bespeak the darker side of the Renaissance and, in particular, the decline in Italian women's status from the late fourteenth century until the Counter Reformation visitations of the …
Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns
Inbunden, 2012
1844 kr
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Contrary to received opinion, revolts and popular protests in medieval English towns were as frequent and as sophisticated, if not more so, as those in the countryside. This groundbreaking study refocuses attention on the varied nature of popular movements in towns from Carlisle to Dover and from …
Popular Protest in Late Medieval English Towns
Häftad, 2015
687 kr
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Contrary to received opinion, revolts and popular protests in medieval English towns were as frequent and as sophisticated, if not more so, as those in the countryside. This groundbreaking study refocuses attention on the varied nature of popular movements in towns from Carlisle to Dover and from …
Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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This Element explores the longest spell that can be computed from quantifiable fiscal records when the gap between rich and poor narrowed. It was the post-Black-Death century, c. 1375 to c. 1475. Paradoxically, with economic equality and prosperity on the rise, peasants, artisans and shopkeepers …
Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living
Essays in Memory of David Herlihy
Av Samuel K. Cohn Jr., Steven A. Epstein
Inbunden, 1996
1368 kr
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This volume--a collection of essays dedicated to one of this century's most distinguished medieval historians, David Herlihy--introduces the general reader to the new social history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The essays address three themes: sex and the family, power and patronage in …
Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death
Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy
Häftad, 1997
356 kr
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In 1363 the Black Death struck central Italy for the second time, causing a detectable shift in notions of the afterlife and patterns of charitable giving. Throughout Tuscany and Umbria, patricians and peasants alike abandoned their previous practice of dividing bequests into small sums, combining …
