'"A Plague on Both Your Houses": coping with epidemic disease in early modern Tuscany'

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• Professor John Henderson, Fellow, Wolfson College; Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Birkbeck, University of London
• Tuesday 03 May 2016, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

Strategies developed by governments in renaissance and early modern Europe to cope with epidemic disease have remained relevant through the centuries, for they are often seen as having provided a template for later public health policies. In particular measures such as isolation and quarantine developed in the early modern period have been seen as models for strategies to deal with a wide range of epidemics, from cholera to AIDS , SARS, Bird Flu and Ebola. This talk will examine how society confronted crises such as plague in pre-modern Italy, which at the time was regarded as providing an example to countries in northern Europe, through examining and indeed questioning exactly how effective were these measures.

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Humanities Society talks series.

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