Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe

ISBN: 9781403939265

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2005-10

页数: 288

定价: $ 124.30

装帧: HRD

内容简介

The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. "Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe" explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.