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Revised for the seven hundredth anniversary of the author's birth, this tale of medieval Italian life details how ten young Florentines retreat to the countryside to escape the plague-infested city and entertain themselves by telling stories.

Plague --- Storytelling --- History

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Thomas Wright Jackson... Cleaning is to be done in the most thorough manner possible, searching meanwhileforratnests and ratharbors; repiling... Specimenorderissued to SanitaryInspector assisting in Plague Suppression byMedical Inspector in charge. Sanitary Inspector, Bureauof Health: Please place the gang of workmen under your charge in the square bounded by Calles Velasquez, Moriones ...

Rats as carriers of disease. --- Plague.

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Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of how municipal officials and residents worked together to create a public health response to epidemics that protected both individual and communal interests. It argues in particular for a redefinition of what "public health" meant in the early modern era, noting the efforts of city officials to protect both individual health and communal welfare as they negotiated a series of balances: between individual and communal needs, between public health and economic needs, between municipal and royal interests. Based on extensive primary sources held in the municipal archive of Seville, the work argues that a careful reading of the records shows a critical difference between how plague regulations were written and how they were enforced, a difference that reflects an unacknowledged process of negotiation aimed at preserving balance within the community. The book makes an important contribution to the scholarly history of epidemics, and in particular to the study of the impact of plague in Spain, which until now has received scant attention from historians. Kristy Wilson Bowers received her PhD from Indiana University and teaches in the History Department at Northern Illinois University.

Salud pública --- Peste --- Medicina --- Historia --- Prevención --- Plague --- Medicine, Medieval --- History --- Prevention. --- Bubonic plague --- Yersinia infections --- Medieval medicine

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Avian influenza. --- Avian flu --- Bird flu --- Fowl pest --- Fowl plague --- Influenza in birds --- Birds --- Influenza --- Poultry --- Virus diseases

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Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of how municipal officials and residents worked together to create a public health response to epidemics that protected both individual and communal interests. It argues in particular for a redefinition of what "public health" meant in the early modern era, noting the efforts of city officials to protect both individual health and communal welfare as they negotiated a series of balances: between individual and communal needs, between public health and economic needs, between municipal and royal interests. Based on extensive primary sources held in the municipal archive of Seville, the work argues that a careful reading of the records shows a critical difference between how plague regulations were written and how they were enforced, a difference that reflects an unacknowledged process of negotiation aimed at preserving balance within the community. The book makes an important contribution to the scholarly history of epidemics, and in particular to the study of the impact of plague in Spain, which until now has received scant attention from historians. Kristy Wilson Bowers received her PhD from Indiana University and teaches in the History Department at Northern Illinois University.

Medicine, Medieval --- Plague --- Bubonic plague --- Yersinia infections --- Medieval medicine --- Prevention --- History --- Prevention. --- City Governance. --- Community Interests. --- Early Modern City. --- Early Modern Seville. --- Economic Disruption. --- Economic Imperatives. --- Epidemics. --- Historiography. --- Individual Interests. --- Kristy Wilson Bowers. --- Municipal Officials. --- Negotiation. --- Plague. --- Public Health. --- South Sea Company.