Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence
Ann G. Carmichael (Author)
Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics.
Print Book, English, 2014
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Cambridge Universoty Press, Cambridge, 2014
History
xv, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9781107634367, 1107634369
906714501
List of graphs, maps, and tables; Introduction; 1. Recurrent epidemic diseases: plague and the other plagues; 2. Florentine deaths in the first plague century; 3. Plague in Florence; 4. The social effects of plague in France; 5. Plague controls become social controls; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Limitations of the Books of the Dead and the means for estimating numbers of children; Appendix 2. Deaths by quarter in Florence (parts 1-6); Notes; Bibliographical essay; Index.
First published 1986