Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times (eBook)

Christos Lynteris (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 2021
XIX, 298 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-72304-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Christos Lynteris is a social anthropologist working on the anthropological and historical examination of epidemics, zoonosis, and epidemiological epistemology. He is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK, currently leading a Wellcome-funded project on The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis. He was Principal Investigator of the ERC funded research project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic (University of Cambridge, 2013-17, University of St Andrews 2017-2018).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Reihe/Serie: Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 298 p. 34 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Anthropology • Asian History • Australian history • bubonic plague • Colonialism • Disease • Early Modern History • Epidemic • European History • History of plague • infectious disease • Medical Anthropology • Medical History • Medieval History • Pandemic • photography • Public Health • Visual Anthropology
• ISBN-10: 3-030-72304-6 / 3030723046
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-72304-0 / 9783030723040