Carlin, Claire L.
Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe
Part I. Theory
1. Fracastoro’s
Isabelle Pantin
2. The Animism of Ambient Air at the End of the Middle Ages
Claude Gagnon
3. Windows on Contagion
Donald Beecher
4. Contagions of Love: Textual Transmission
Nancy Frelick
5. The Devil’s Curses: The Demonic Origin of Disease in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Marianne Closson
Part II. Practice
6. Apples and Moustaches: Montaigne’s Grin in the Face of Infection
Hélène Cazes
7. Contagion, Honour and Urban Life in Early Modern Germany
Mitchell Lewis Hammond
8. Corruptible Bodies and Contaminating Technologies: Jesuit Devotional Print and the 1656 Plague in Naples
Rose Marie San Juan
9. Quarantine and Caress
Frédéric Charbonneau
10. The Preaching Disease: Contagious Ecstasy in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Daniel Lindmark
Part III. Projections
11. A Contagion at the Source of Discourse on Sexualities: Syphilis during the French Renaissance
Guy Poirier
12. Contagious Laughter and the Burlesque: From the Literal to the Metaphorical
Dominique Bertrand
13. The Pathology of Reading: The Novel as an Agent of Contagion
Michel Fournier
14. Religious Contagion in Mid-Seventeenth Century England
Nicole Greenspan
15. Contagion by Conceit: Menstruosity and the Rhetoric of Smallpox into the Age of Inoculation
David E. Shuttleton
16. An Afterword on Contagion
Donald Beecher
Nyckelord: History, European History, History of Philosophy, History of Science, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History
- Utgivare
- Carlin, Claire L.
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2005
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 301 sidor
- Kategori
- Historia
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230522619
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-51974-3