SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor
the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as …

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 …

Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central
role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in particular the prevention and …

Ten years after completing his work The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, Bolognese
painter Domenichino was accused by his rival Giovanni Lanfranco of stealing the idea for …

From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain
repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially …

Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from
Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the …

Disease has a deep history. Modern “plagues” have made historians sensitive to the
problem of human illness and suffering in the past, and even the broader public is drawn to …

On March 12, 2020, the day after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a
pandemic, we began conceiving and collecting material for the crowd-sourced “Humanities …

Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures
and historical periods. As an object of interpretation and site of social interaction, the body …