2nd Edition
Plague in the Early Modern World A Documentary History
List of figures and tables
List of figures and tables (sources)
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Modern medicine and conditions
Vulnerability and resilience: conceptual categories and interpretive framework
1: The bubonic plague: historical overview and scope
2: Religious understanding of and response to plague
3: Medical understanding of and responses to plague
4: Political and policy responses to plague
5: Social responses to plague: memory, society, and culture
Bibliography
Works cited
Further reading
Index
Biography
Dean Phillip Bell is President/CEO and Professor of Jewish History at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany, Jews in the Early Modern World, Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Identity, and (with Michael S. Hogue) Interreligious Resilience: Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography, and co-editor (with Keren Eva Fraiman) of The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the Twenty-First Century.
