Plague and Pestilence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plague and Pestilence write by Linda Jacobs Altman. This book was released on 1998. Plague and Pestilence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Plagues have afflicted humankind throughout its history. From the Black Death to Ebola, author Linda Jacobs Altman traces our battles against infectious disease. Despite medical advances, the fight against these diseases is far from over.
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History write by Peter Furtado. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An eye-opening anthology from the bestselling editor of Histories of Nations, exploring how people around the globe have suffered and survived during plague and pandemic, from the ancient world to the present. Plague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writing at every turn. Humankind has always struggled with illness; and the experiences of different cities and countries have been compared and connected for thousands of years. Many great authors have published their eyewitness accounts and survivor stories of the great contagions of the past. When the great Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta visited Damascus in 1348 during the great plague, which went on to kill half of the population, he wrote about everything he saw. He reported, "God lightened their affliction; for the number of deaths in a single day at Damascus did not attain 2,000, while in Cairo it reached the figure of 24,000 a day." From the plagues of ancient Egypt recorded in Genesis to those like the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, and from the Spanish flu of 1918 to the Covid-19 pandemic in our own century, this anthology contains fascinating accounts. Editor Peter Furtado places the human experience at the center of these stories, understanding that the way people have responded to disease crises over the centuries holds up a mirror to our own actions and experiences. Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic includes writing from around the world and highlights the shared emotional responses to pandemics: from rage, despair, dark humor, and heartbreak, to finally, hope that it may all be over. By connecting these moments in history, this book places our own reactions to the Covid-19 pandemic within the longer human story.
Images of Plague and Pestilence
Images of Plague and Pestilence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images of Plague and Pestilence write by Christine M. Boeckl. This book was released on 2000-12-01. Images of Plague and Pestilence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects masterpieces created by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, and includes minor works dating from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the most important innovative artistic works that originated during the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. This study of the changing iconographic patterns and their iconological interpretations opens a window to the past.
Life in a Time of Pestilence
Life in a Time of Pestilence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life in a Time of Pestilence write by Ruth MacKay. This book was released on 2019-08-15. Life in a Time of Pestilence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of the plague in late sixteenth-century Spain.
Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues [2 volumes]
Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues [2 volumes] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues [2 volumes] write by Joseph P. Byrne. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues [2 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work.
