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Piety and Plague - From Byzantium to the Baroque (Hardcover)
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Piety and Plague - From Byzantium to the Baroque (Hardcover)
Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
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Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the
European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first
decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most
important influences on the development of Europe's society and
culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the
political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history
of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease
and society's response to it. To date, the largest portion of
scholarship about plague has focused on its political, economic,
demographic, and medical aspects. This interdisciplinary volume
offers greater coverage of the religious and the psychological
dimensions of plague and of European society's response to it
through many centuries and over a wide geographical terrain,
including Byzantium. This research draws extensively upon a wealth
of primary sources, both printed and painted, and includes ample
bibliographical reference to the most im
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