Life in a Time of Pestilence

Ruth MacKay

Cambridge University Press, 2019

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From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague of 1596 was especially terrible. Rejecting traditional interpretations, this places the epidemic in communities' long-standing political practices, culture, and law to understand how it was experienced, understood, and managed by everyday people.

ISBN-13
9781108498203
ISBN-10
1108498205
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2019
Publication date
2019-08-15
Pages
288
Dimensions
161x235x18
Weight
598