Book ID: CBB412673555

Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times (2021)

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This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.

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Authors & Contributors
Varlik, Nükhet
Mormando, Franco
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Francesco Minni
Pittalis, Edoardo
Emanuele Stolfi
Concepts
Medicine and culture
Disease and diseases
Plague
Medicine and art
Public health
Epidemics
Time Periods
Medieval
Early modern
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Renaissance
Places
South Africa
Italy
Europe
Russia
Rome (Italy)
Ottoman Empire
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