1st Edition
Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Introduction: Diseases in Historical Environments
Lori Jones
Section I: Cleansing and Managing Local Airs, Waters, and Places
1. "For the Good and Pacific State of the People and the Commune": Healthscaping in Bologna and Siena before the Black Death (c. 1100–1348)
Anna M. Peterson and Courtney Krolikowski
2. "The Nourishment of Infections": Disease and Waterscape in Late Medieval Valencia
Abigail Agresta
3. From Helpful Gardens to Hateful Words: Moral and Physical Healthscaping in the Late Medieval Rhineland
Lucy C. Barnhouse
Section II: Recalibrating Airs, Waters, and Places: New Environments, New Mentalities
4. "Turkey is Almost a Perpetual Seminary of the Plague": Relocating Pathogenic Plague Environments
Lori Jones
5. Managing Disaster and Understanding Disease and the Environment in the Early Eighteenth Century
Cindy Ermus
6. "Hot Climates" and Disease: Early Modern European Views of Tropical Environments
Guillaume Linte
Section III: Science Meets Historical Disease Environments
7. Environments of Health and Disease in Tropical Africa before the Colonial Era
Gérard Chouin
8. The Rise and Fall of a Historical Plague Reservoir: The Case of Ottoman Anatolia
Nükhet Varlik
9. Survival in the Context of Urbanization and Environmental Change in Medieval and Early Modern London, England
Sharon N. Dewitte
Biography
Lori Jones is a medical historian at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses primarily on plague texts and images. She is the author of Patterns of Plague (2022) and co-editor of Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World (2022) with Nükhet Varlık.
