Disease and Society in Premodern England Theilmann John
Disease and Society in Premodern England Theilmann John Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c.…
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Disease and Society in Premodern England Theilmann John
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. The volume provides a perspective on how society and medicine reacted to new diseases, something that remains an issue in the twenty-first century. 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 of how diseases affected society and why they were so difficult to combat in the premodern world.
In addition to the biology of disease and its The new diseases of the Late Middle Ages, such as plague, syphilis, and the English Sweat, are viewed as helping to lead to a change in how people viewed disease causation and treatment.