{"product_id":"disease-and-the-environment-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-worlds-9780367151720","title":"Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognize no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds explores the intertwined relationships between humans, the natural and manmade environments, and disease. Urgency gives us a sense that we need a longer view of human responses and interactions with the airs, waters, and places in which we live, and a greater understanding of the activities and attitudes that have led us to the present. Through a series of new research studies, two salient questions are explored: What are the deeper patterns in thinking about disease and the environment? What can we know about the environmental and ecological parameters of emergent human diseases over a longer period  aspects of disease t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Diseases in Historical Environments \u003cstrong\u003eSection I: Cleansing and Managing Local \u003cem\u003eAirs, Waters, and Places\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e 1. \"\u003ci\u003eFor the Good and Pacific State of the People and the Commune\u003c\/i\u003e\": Healthscaping in Bologna and Siena before the Black Death (c. 1100–1348) 2. \"\u003ci\u003eThe Nourishment of Infections\u003c\/i\u003e\": Disease and Waterscape in Late Medieval Valencia 3. From Helpful Gardens to Hateful Words: Moral and Physical Healthscaping in the Late Medieval Rhineland \u003cstrong\u003eSection II: Recalibrating \u003cem\u003eAirs, Waters, and Places\u003c\/em\u003e: New Environments, New Mentalities \u003c\/strong\u003e4. \"\u003ci\u003eTurkey is Almost a Perpetual Seminary of the Plague\u003c\/i\u003e\": Relocating Pathogenic Plague Environments 5. Managing Disaster and Understanding Disease and the Environment in the Early Eighteenth Century 6. \"Hot Climates\" and Disease: Early Modern European Views of Tropical Environments \u003cstrong\u003eSection III: Science Meets Historical Disease Environments \u003c\/strong\u003e7. Environments of Health and Disease in Tropical Africa before the Colonial Era 8. The Rise and Fall of a Historical Plague Reservoir: The Case of Ottoman Anatolia 9. Survival in the Context of Urbanization and Environmental Change in Medieval and Early Modern London, England\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017837969751,"sku":"9780367151720","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367151720.jpg?v=1750774837","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disease-and-the-environment-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-worlds-9780367151720","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}