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A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, this book provides a nuanced and more compassionate interpretation of government policies in practice, by recreating the very human reactions and survival strategies of families and individuals. From the evocation of the overcrowded conditions in isolation hospitals to the splendor of religious processions, Henderson analyzes Florentine reactions within a wider European context to assess the effect of state policies on the city, street, and family. Writing in a vivid and approachable way, this book unearths the forgotten stories of doctors and administrators struggling to cope with the sick and dying, and of those who were left bereft and confused by the sudden loss of relatives.

Black Death --- History --- Pest, ... --- Florence (Italy) --- Florence (Italy) --- Social conditions --- History

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A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague. Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John Henderson examines how a major city fought, suffered, and survived the impact of plague. Going beyond traditional oppositions between rich and poor, this book provides a nuanced and more compassionate interpretation of government policies in practice, by recreating the very human reactions and survival strategies of families and individuals. From the evocation of the overcrowded conditions in isolation hospitals to the splendor of religious processions, Henderson analyzes Florentine reactions within a wider European context to assess the effect of state policies on the city, street, and family. Writing in a vivid and approachable way, this book unearths the forgotten stories of doctors and administrators struggling to cope with the sick and dying, and of those who were left bereft and confused by the sudden loss of relatives.

Black Death --- Plague --- Urban Health --- Health Policy --- Socioeconomic Factors --- History, 17th Century --- Epidemics --- Medicine, Medieval --- 17th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 17th Cent. History of Medicine --- 17th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 17th Century --- History of Medicine, 17th Cent. --- History, Seventeenth Century --- Medical History, 17th Cent. --- Medicine, 17th Cent. --- 17th Century History --- 17th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 17th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 17th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, Seventeenth --- Century History, 17th --- Century History, Seventeenth --- Histories, 17th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 17th Century --- Histories, Seventeenth Century --- History, 17th Cent. (Medicine) --- Seventeenth Century Histories --- Seventeenth Century History --- epidemiology --- history --- Florence (Italy) --- Italy --- History. --- epidemiology. --- History of Italy --- anno 1600-1699 --- Florence --- Black Death.

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At the Edge of Reformation springs from Peter Linehan's continuing interest in the history of Spain and Portugal, on this occasion in the first half of the fourteenth century between the recovery of each kingdom from widespread anarchy and civil war and the onset of the Black Death. Focussing on ecclesiastical aspects of the period in that region (Galicia in particular) and secular attitudes to the privatisation of the church, it raises inter alios the question why developments there did not lead to a permanent sundering of the relationship with Rome (or Avignon) two centuries ahead of that outcome elsewhere in the West. In addressing such issues, as well as of neglected archival material in Spanish and Portuguese archives, Linehan makes use of the also unpublished so-called 'secret' registers of the popes of the period. The issues this volume raises ought to be of interest not only to students of Spanish and Portuguese society but also to those interested in the developing relationship further afield of the components of the eternal quadrilateral (pope, king, episcopate, and secular nobility) in late medieval Europe as well as of the activity in that period of the secular-minded sapientes. In this context, attention is given to the hitherto neglected attempt of Afonso IV of Portugal to appropriate the privileges of the primatial church of his kingdom and to the glorification of his Castilian son-in-law as God's vice-gerent in his.

Spain --- Portugal --- History --- Politics and government --- Church history. --- Black Death --- 284.1 <460> --- 284.1*122 --- 27 <460> "14/15" --- 27 <469> --- 27 <469> Histoire de l'Eglise--Portugal --- 27 <469> Kerkgeschiedenis--Portugal --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Portugal --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Portugal --- 27 <460> "14/15" Histoire de l'Eglise--Spanje--?"14/15" --- 27 <460> "14/15" Kerkgeschiedenis--Spanje--?"14/15" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Spanje--?"14/15" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Spanje--?"14/15" --- 284.1*122 Oorzaken van de hervorming:--sociale, politieke en economische toestand --- Oorzaken van de hervorming:--sociale, politieke en economische toestand --- 284.1 <460> Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Spanje --- Lutheraanse hervorming. Reformatie van Luther--Spanje --- Epidemics --- Medicine, Medieval --- Plague --- Religious aspects