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PLAGUE AND THE CITY

Plague and the City uncovers discourses of plague and anti-plague measures in the city during the medieval, early modern and modern periods, and explores the connection between plague and urban environments including attempts by professional bodies to prevent or limit the outbreak of epidemic disease.

Bringing together leading scholars of plague, this book provides an inter-disciplinary study of plague in the city across time and space. The chapters cover a wide range of periods, geographical locations and disciplinary approaches but all seek to answer significant questions, including whether common motives can be identified, and how far knowledge about plague was based on an understanding of the urban space. It also examines how maps and photographs contribute to understanding plague in the city through exploring the ways in which the relationship between plague and the urban environment has been visualised, from the poisoned darts of plague winging their way towards their victims in the votive pictures from the Renaissance, to the mapping of the spread of disease in late nineteenth-century Bombay and photographing Honolulus great plague fire in 1900.

Containing a series of studies that illuminate plagues urban connection as a key social and political concern throughout history, Plague and the City is ideal for students of early modern history, and of the early modern city and plague more specifically.

Lukas Engelmann is Chancellors Fellow for Sociology and History of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral research focused on the visual medical history of AIDS/HIV. His current research focuses on the digital transformation of epidemiology and the history of epidemiological models and concepts in the long twentieth century.

John Henderson is Professor of Italian Renaissance History in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London; Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge; and Research Professor, Monash University, Melbourne. His previous publications include The Renaissance Hospital (2006).

Christos Lynteris is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded research project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic (20132018). His work focuses on the anthropological and historical examination of infectious disease epidemics. His previous books include The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (2012), Ethnographic Plague (2016), and Histories of Post-Modern Contagion (edited with Nicholas Evans, 2018).

THE BODY IN THE CITY

This series aims to intersect and to energise two strands in historical studies: the pre-modern city as an historical subject (encompassing political institutions, rituals, built environments, religious activities, etc.) and histories of the pre-modern body with their debates about how bodies are shaped by discourse and context. The series will highlight approaches which emphasize the vernacular as revealed by new sources and novel approaches to them. While there are numerous studies of the body in history, this series will explore critically and in innovative ways the relationship between bodies and environments. This will allow scholars involved to analyse how particular spaces, locations and physical milieux affect understandings of the body and govern responses to particular problems. The multi-disciplinary approach to the topic places the series at the leading edge of its field.

Series Editors: Peter Howard, Monash University, Australia, and John Henderson, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Monash University, Australia

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Plague and the City
Edited by Lukas Engelmann, John Henderson, and Christos Lynteris

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PLAGUE AND THE CITY

Edited by
Lukas Engelmann, John Henderson,
and Christos Lynteris

First published 2019
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Names: Engelmann, Lukas, 1981- editor. | Henderson, John, 1949 June 12-editor. | Lynteris, Christos, editor.

Title: Plague and the city / edited by Lukas Engelmann, John Henderson and Christos Lynteris.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: The body in the city | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018028399|

Subjects: LCSH: PlagueHistory. | PlaguePrevention. | Public health History.

Classification: LCC RA644.P7 P385 2018 | DDC 614.5/732dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018028399

ISBN: 978-1-138-59067-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-32612-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-45004-4 (ebk)

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Plague and the City is an output of the Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project (PI Christos Lynteris) which was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme/ERC grant agreement no. 336564. The volume derives from a collection of papers presented at the first annual conference of Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic, which was held at the University of Cambridges Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) between 5 and 6 December 2014 on the topic of Plague and the City: Disease, Epidemic Control, and the Urban Environment. We would like to thank the conferences participants, Maria Antonia Almeida, Liora Bigon, Carlo Caduff, Neil Cummins, Samuel Cohn, Romola Davenport, Diego Ramiro Farinas, Marta Hanson, Andrea Janku, Pavla Jirkova, and Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, for their input in the discussion of the relation between plague and the city, and, Emma Hacking, for her wonderful support in organising the conference. The series The Body in the City, and this volume, has been made possible by the Monash Faculty of Arts Focus Research Program: Body in the City, 11001800.

Lukas Engelmann is a Chancellors Fellow for Sociology and History of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral research focused on the visual medical history of AIDS/HIV, which will be published as Mapping AIDS in autumn 2018. His current research focuses on the digital transformation of epidemiology and the history of epidemiological models and concepts in the long twentieth century.