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Cet ouvrage s'intéresse au risque et à la vigilance face à la peste sur la côte méditerranéenne française dans la première moitié du 18e siècle. Entre 1720 et 1722, une terrible épidémie de peste frappe Marseille, la Provence, le Comtat-Venaissin et une partie du Languedoc, causant environ 100'000 décès. Aussi dramatique soit-elle, cette épidémie constitue une exception durant la première moitié du 18e siècle. La première partie de ce travail analyse les rapports entre vigilance, espace et communication et met en évidence une prévention qui s'exerce tant de manière transméditerranéenne que de manière interne au royaume de France. Une véritable «bureaucratie sanitaire» se met en place. La deuxième partie étudie les normes et les pratiques de la vigilance sanitaire, tant sur un plan politico-sanitaire (quarantaines des navires, des passagers et des marchandises) que sur un plan religieux (processions et prières pour endiguer la maladie). Enfin, la dernière partie se limite à la peste de 1720-1722 et illustre le passage d'une vigilance préventive à une vigilance réactive en s'intéressant aux «acteurs de la peste» et aux attitudes et tactiques développées face au fléau épidémique. This book addresses the question of vigilance in the face of an epidemic at the beginning of the 18th century, based on the example of the fight against the plague in the French Mediterranean. Because of its trans-Mediterranean trade, this region was particularly exposed to the risk of plague so that it sought to protect itself with concrete measures such as quarantine.

HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century. --- Ancien Régime. --- Marseille. --- health. --- illness.

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Unbestritten gehört Klopstock zu den Schlüsselautoren des 18. Jahrhunderts: Sein bloßer Name war eine Chiffre poetisch erhöhten Lebens. Und dennoch ist die akademische Rezeption seiner Werke von jeher recht spärlich erfolgt und war auch weitgehend großen Missverständnissen ausgesetzt. Das Klopstock-Handbuch setzt hier ganz bewusst neue Impulse und versammelt dafür ein möglichst breites Spektrum neuerer und neuester Forschungsperspektiven. Klopstock und sein Werk werden in den vielfältigen literarischen, rhetorischen, religiösen, politischen und gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen des 18. Jahrhunderts verortet, deren Folgen bis heute zu spüren sind. Neben Interpretationen seiner Werke und der Darstellung seiner poetischen Konzepte liefert das Handbuch kontext- und diskursgeschichtliche Einbettungen ebenso wie Analysen zur Rhetorik und Metrik oder Überlegungen zu Politik und Sport.

European literature. --- Literature, Modern—18th century. --- Poetry. --- European Literature. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Poetry and Poetics.

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A close look at the medical and social theories of prominent Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush and how they influenced American medicine in the years following the Revolutionary War.

History, 19th Century --- History, 18th Century --- Physicians --- Rush, Benjamin, --- United States --- Educators

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This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s pronouncements about law may often sound biblical in tone; but this book argues that they directly address (and are informed by) eighteenth-century legal debates concerning the origin of the English common law, the autonomy of the judicature, the increasing legislative role of Parliament, and the emergence of the notions of constitutionalism and natural rights. Through a study of his illuminated books, manuscript works, notebook drafts and annotations, this study considers Blake’s understanding that law is both integral to humanity itself and a core component of its potential fulfilment of the ‘Human Form Divine’. Matthew Mauger is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research focuses on the intellectual, literary and commercial life of London in the eighteenth century, with a particular interest in how the administrative frameworks associated with the city – civil, legal, political, financial – provide contexts for literary expression. He is co-author of Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London (2016) and of Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (2015).

Literature, Modern --- Law --- Poetry. --- European literature. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Legal History. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- European Literature. --- 18th century. --- History.

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A study which depicts how slavery in the USA ended within a single generation at the end of the 18th century, in the important colony/state of Pennsylvania.

Slaves --- Slavery --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Emancipation --- History --- Pennsylvania --- 18th century --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --- 1775-1865 --- Slaves - Pennsylvania - Emancipation. --- Slavery - Pennsylvania - History - 18th century. --- Afro-Americans - Pennsylvania - History - 18th century. --- Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. --- Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865. --- Black people