Karen Jillings

An Urban History of The Plague (eBook, ePUB)

Socio-Economic, Political and Medical Impacts in a Scottish Community, 1500-1650

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects of the pre-modern world.

This book examines the incidence and effects of plague in an early modern Scottish community by analysing civic, medical and social responses to epidemics in the north-east port of Aberdeen, focusing on the period 1500-1650. While Aberdeen's experience of plague was in many ways similar to that of other towns throughout Europe, certain idiosyncrasies in the city make it a particularly interesting case study, which challenges several assumptions about early modern mentalities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317274704
• Artikelnr.: 56837361

Autorenporträt

Karen Jillings is Senior Lecturer in History at Massey University, New Zealand, where she has taught since 2004. She has published on aspects of medicine and society in pre-modern Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Setting the scene: Aberdeen and the north-east
Chapter 2 Responses to plague in Scotland
Chapter 3 Plague in Aberdeen before 1550
Chapter 4 Plague in Aberdeen after 1550
Chapter 5 Aberdeen's final plague: the outbreak of 1647-48
Chapter 6 Conclusion