Cultures of plague: medical thinking at the end of the renaissance
Auteur :
Cohn, Jr., Samuel K.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199605095
Date de publication :
31 mars 2011
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
550 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession, questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God.