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Beyond Eurocentric Histories of Plague (2017)

Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 22
Issue: 4
Pages: 361-373

DOI: 10.1163/15733823-00224P04

URI: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15733823-00224p04

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Disease and diseases Public health Historiography Plague Early modern Medieval Italy Mediterranean region Spain Croatia

Over the past decade, historians of plague and public health have witnessed a flurry of publications addressing the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean world. This essay will discuss three recent monographs that examine plague and responses to it in three port cities of the Mediterranean world: Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Venice, and Seville. Each of these books makes an important contribution to the existing historical scholarship and, together, they represent critical changes that are taking place in the field of plague studies. In what follows, I will survey each work with respect to the broader historiographical trends it follows, the topics it covers, and the sources it uses. I will then seek to establish points of connection between the three works, while discussing issues of contention, consensus, and areas that remain open to further development within the larger historiography of plague and public health.

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Book Zlata Blazina Tomic; Vesna Blazina (2015) Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533. unapi

Book Crawshaw, Jane L. Stevens (2012) Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice. unapi

Book Bowers, Kristy Wilson (2013) Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville. unapi

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