UID:
almahu_9949420018802882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781003215219
,
1003215211
,
9781000544596
,
1000544591
,
9781000544619
,
1000544613
Content:
"Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500-c.1600, with the major focus from the eleventh century onward. With discussions on a variety of diseases including leprosy, tuberculosis, malaria, measles, typhus, influenza, and smallpox, this volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of medicine and disease in premodern England"--
Note:
1. Finding the Impact of Disease in Premodern England 2. Human Impacts on Health in Premodern England 3. The Everyday Threat of Infectious Disease 4. Epidemic Disease and Its Arrival in England 5. The Second Plague Pandemic and the Demographic Crisis It Produced 6. Responses to the Plague 7. New Diseases at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The Mystery of the English Sweat 8. New Diseases at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The Certainty of Syphilis, the Great Pox 9. A New Era for Epidemic Disease 10. Disease and its Impact at the Beginning of a New Era
Additional Edition:
Print version: Theilmann, John M. Disease and society in premodern England Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032104126
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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History.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003215219
