Plague image and imagination from medieval to modern times / Christos Lynteris, editor.
Lynteris, Christos, editor.
2021
RA644.P7 P53 2021
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Title Plague image and imagination from medieval to modern times / Christos Lynteris, editor.
ISBN 9783030723040 (electronic bk.)
3030723046 (electronic bk.)
9783030723033
3030723038
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72304-0
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 298 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-72304-0 doi
Call Number RA644.P7 P53 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.5/732
Summary This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 3, 2021).
Added Author Lynteris, Christos, editor.
Series Medicine and biomedical sciences in modern history.
Available in Other Form Plague image and imagination from medieval to modern times.
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Introduction: Imaging and imagining plague / Christos Lynteris
Why is Black Death black? European gothic imaginaries of 'Oriental' plague / Nukhet Varlk
Painting the plague : 1250-1630 / Sheila Barker
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Picturing plague : photography, pestilence and cremation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India / David Arnold
Reflexive gaze and constructed meanings : photographs of plague hospitals in colonial Bombay / Abhijit Sarkar
Plague in India : contagion, quarantine, and the transmission of scientific knowledge / Samuel Cohn Jr.
Bamboo dwellers : plague, photography and the house in colonial Java / Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk
Making a model plague : paper technologies and epidemiological casuistry in the early twentieth century / Lukas Engelmann
Ethnographic images of the plague : outbreak and the landscape of memory in Madagascar / Genese Marie Sodikoff and Z.R. Dieudonne Rasolonomenjanahary.

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