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SUMMARY:'"A Plague on Both Your Houses": coping with epidemic disease in e
 arly modern Tuscany' - Professor John Henderson\,  Fellow\, Wolfson Colleg
 e\; Professor of Italian Renaissance History\, Birkbeck\, University of Lo
 ndon
DTSTART:20160503T164500Z
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:Strategies developed by governments in renaissance and early m
 odern 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 A
 IDS\, SARS\, Bird Flu and Ebola. This talk will examine how society confro
 nted crises such as plague in pre-modern Italy\, which at the time was reg
 arded as providing an example to countries in northern Europe\, through ex
 amining and indeed questioning exactly how effective were these measures.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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