Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville

by Kristy Wilson Bowers

This study of sixteenth-century Seville offers a new perspective on how early modern cities adapted to living with repeated epidemics of plague.

Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of how municipal officials and residents worked together to create a public health response that protected both individual and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464513
• ISBN13: 9781580464512
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"