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Plague in literature.

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"A wave of plague ravaged the cities of northern Italy in 1630-31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it affected people, institutions, and beliefs; how individuals and institutions responded; and how they did or did not try to remember and memorialize it"--

Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Plague in literature. --- Plague --- Jews --- History and criticism. --- History --- Epidemiology --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- Italy: North --- Plague in literature --- History and criticism

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Plague in literature --- Plague --- Peste dans la littérature --- Peste --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,

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Shows how English responses to the Black Death were hidden in plain sight-as seen in the Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poems.

Plague in literature. --- Plague --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- Pearl (Middle English poem) --- Criticism, Textual. --- Bubonic plague --- Yersinia infections

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"For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not change significantly from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century, understandings of where and how plague originated did. Through an innovative reading of medical advice literature produced in England and France, Patterns of Plague explores these changing perceptions across four centuries. When plague appeared in the Mediterranean region in 1348, physicians believed the epidemic's timing and spread could be explained logically and the disease could be successfully treated. This confidence resulted in the widespread and long-term circulation of plague tracts, which described the causes and signs of the disease, offered advice for preventing infection, and recommended therapies in a largely consistent style. What, where, and especially who was blamed for plague outbreaks changed considerably, however, as political, religious, economic, intellectual, medical, and even publication circumstances evolved. Patterns of Plague sheds light on what was consistent about plague thinking and what was idiosyncratic to particular places and times, revealing the many factors that influence how people understand and respond to epidemic disease."--

Plague --- Medical literature --- Plague in literature --- Manuscripts as Topic --- History --- Epidemiology --- History and criticism --- history --- epidemiology --- England --- France