Demichel, Sébastien
(ed.)
Hengerer, Mark Sven
(ed.)
Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance ; 6
Número de páginas: 206 págs.
Fecha de edición: 01-04-2024
EAN: 9783111026121
ISBN: 978-3-11-102612-1
Precio (sin IVA): 32,95 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 34,27 €
This book focuses on the connection between vigilance and the plague in France throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. For more than three centuries, between the middle of the 14th century up until circa 1670, the prevalence of the plague in France was said to be endemic, before it then vanished from French territory. The Great Plague of Marseille (1720-1722, which also impacted the rest of Provence, the County of Venaissin and Languedoc) proved to be an exception. During that period, the fight against the plague was deemed a top-priority along the French coast, and health institutions, called bureaux de la santé, were developed.