Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany

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Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany

Hess, Peter

Berghahn Books

03/2026

368

Dura

Inglês

9781836954255

15 a 20 dias

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List of Figures and Tables



Introduction

Hannah Murphy



Part I: Textual Strategies: Plague and Print



Chapter 1. Plague for a Popular Audience: Suspicions of Print in Late Fifteenth-Century Germany

Christopher Hutchinson



Chapter 2. The Ethics of Surviving Plague: Political, Social, and Moral Considerations in Sixteenth-Century German Plague Texts

Peter Hess



Chapter 3. Fighting Plague and Heresy in Early Modern Bavaria: The Confessionalization of Bavarian Plague Literature, 1521-1650

Erik A. Heinrichs



Part II: Political Strategies: Rulers and City Councils Responding to Plague



Chapter 4. Contagion and Control: City Ccouncils and the French Ppox in Frankfurt am Main and Nuremberg, 1495-1510

Monica C. O'Brien



Chapter 5. Tracing Sixteenth-Century Infection Chains in Central Germany

Thomas Wozniak



Chapter 6. Handling Pestilence During the Thirty Years' War

Sigrun Haude



Chapter 7. Plague Control in the Absolutist Territorial State. Ideal and Reality in Electoral Hanover 1709-1716

Ulf Wendler



Part III: Broader Academic and Social Responses to Plague



Chapter 8. About What is Right in Times of Plague. Contagious Debates in Natural Philosophy, Medicine, Law, and Theology at the Academia Julia inUniversity of Helmstedt, 1681-83

Benjamin Wallura



Chapter 9. Diseases as Threat to the Human and Animal World. Interdependencies of Early Modern Contagion Discourses in Central Europe

Ansgar Schanbacher, Philip Knaeble, and Malte de Vries



Chapter 10. Plague Cemeteries in Early Modern German Towns

Martin Christ



Pandemics-Theirs and Ours. An Afterword

Peter Hess



Bibliography

Index
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History: Medieval/Early Modern