Introduction
1: Sources and perspectives: A quantitative reckoning
2: Signs and symptoms
3: The impetus from Sicily
4: The Successo della peste
5: Liberation of the city and Plague poetry
6: Plague disputes and challenges to the old 'universals'
7: Plague and poverty
8: Towards a new public health consciousness in medicine
9: Plague psychology
Epilogue
Bibliography
BA. Union College (Schnectady, NY); MA. University of Wisconsin
(Madison), 1972; Ph.D Harvard, 1978; Professor of Medieval History,
University of Glasgow since 1995. Author of eleven books, including
Women in the Streets (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996); Creating the
Florentine State (Cambridge UP, 1999); The Black Death Transformed
(Oxford UP, 2002); and Lust for Liberty (Harvard UP, 2006). In 2008
I was 'Distinguished Visiting Professor' at the University of
California,
Berkeley.
I am a member of the Royal Historical Society, the selection panel
for the European Research Council, the advisory boards of the
Oxford UP Online Bibliographies for the Renaissance and Reformation
and 'Medieval Memoria Online' (NE). I am married with two children,
aged 10 and 12. I am a hill runner and won the World Stone skimming
competition for the Easdale islanders in 2008.
[A] brilliant study... Floating fascinating detail on relentless
research, Samuel K. Cohn's Cultures of Plague is a tour de
force.
*Lauro Martines, Times Literary Supplement*
A book of marvellous detail and range...superb
*William Poole, Times Higher Education Supplement*
[An] important contribution...This book is a model of scholarly
endeavor: a significant and stimulating argument is informed by
rich and detailed research and conveyed in energetic and engaging
writing. An indispensable contribution to the field, it should be
read by every scholar interested in early modern disease and
health.
*Bulletin of the History of Medicine*
Cultures of the Plague offers an exhaustive and meticulous survey
of plague writing in Renaissance Italy. The book's enduring value
now surpassing that of Carlo Cipolla and earlier scholars of like
eminence in the field.
*Ernest B. Gilman, Social History of Medicine.*
the book offers a stimulus to more research on the theme of plague,
a fascinating topic already a very lively one among a broad range
of historians of medicine, politics, religion, art, and
literature.
*Thomas Worcester, Renaissance Quarterly*
with its careful reading of a great number of texts, this
fascinating book lucidly demonstrates the need for a more nuanced
approach to understanding the medical culture of the late sixteenth
century and its response to change ... highly recommended
*James E. Shaw, English Historical Review*
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