1st Edition

Disease and Society in Premodern England

By John Theilmann Copyright 2022
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500–c. 1600, with the major focus from the eleventh century onward. Theilmann blends historical research, using a variety of primary sources, with an understanding of disease drawn from current scientific literature to enable a better understanding... Read more

1. Finding the Impact of Disease in Premodern England  2. Human Impacts on Health in Premodern England  3. The Everyday Threat of Infectious Disease  4. Epidemic Disease and Its Arrival in England  5. The Second Plague Pandemic and the Demographic Crisis It Produced  6. Responses to the Plague  7. New Diseases at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The Mystery of the English Sweat  8. New Diseases at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The Certainty of Syphilis, the Great Pox  9. A New Era for Epidemic Disease  10. Disease and its Impact at the Beginning of a New Era

Biography

John Theilmann is Andrew Helmus Distinguished Professor of History and Politics at Converse University. He has published several articles and book chapters dealing with topics in medieval history and the history of diseases, and a book and several articles in political science dealing with congressional elections.