Titlebook: Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe; Claire L. Carlin Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

Conserve

Apples and Moustaches: Montaigne’s Grin in the Face of Infectionection whose origins are untraceable and whose contact is unavoidable. Contagion in such a conception would be the unstoppable and universal spreading of death, recognized by the symptoms of the malady and the span of its action; impossible to counter by the isolation of its physical source, the out

Ferritin

Contagion, Honour and Urban Life in Early Modern Germanyic places. ‘What sort of situation is this,’ he asked, ‘when in every church — especially at the solemn and most heavily attended feasts — one is obliged to enter into the church proper between two rows of the sick, the vomiting, the ulcerous, the diseased with ills whose names are unmentionable …?’

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Decongestant

Quarantine and Caress these have a strong theoretical component and definitively aim to produce an effect that we will call health, without attempting to define it further. From this dual point of view, narrative is a unique practice because it takes place after events and does not attempt to affect their course; specul

Precursor

The Preaching Disease: Contagious Ecstasy in Eighteenth-Century Swedenrning appropriate measures to be taken against religious enthusiasm, and at the meeting on 28 May 1776, Celsius read his draft reply to the Consistory, which approved the text without changes. The consultation was motivated by ecstatic religious movements in northern Sweden, but also the general pre

HUSH

A Contagion at the Source of Discourse on Sexualities: Syphilis during the French Renaissancecentury, discourse on syphilis took on various, colourful and carnivalesque guises, before finding discipline and continuing its odyssey with moral commentary. One must await the libertines and the beginning of the seventeenth century before syphilis wears another mask, that of the baroque image and

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BROOK

Contagion by Conceit: Menstruosity and the Rhetoric of Smallpox into the Age of Inoculationinterpret historical representations of contagion.1 The novel’s eponymous hero and his wife Camilla have received a request from Mr Ratcliff, their rich but autocratic and treacherous relation, demanding a visit from their son Peter, to whom he stands godfather. David’s difficult decision to refuse

COMA

An Afterword on Contagionssion through proximity, and then generalized again to express moral contamination, imitative emotions or the psychology of crowds. Through such analogical applications, the history of contagion becomes even more extensive, one that relates not only to the best scientific and philosophical explanati