Community Approaches to the Plague

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Contagions: Society for Historic Infectious Disease Studies

Organizer Name

Michelle Ziegler

Organizer Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Presider Name

Michelle Ziegler

Paper Title 1

Plague in the Ghetto: Jews, Christians, and Epidemics

Presenter 1 Name

Susan L. Einbinder

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Connecticut

Paper Title 2

Praying Away the Plague in the Late Medieval Midi

Presenter 2 Name

Brian Forman

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Northwestern Univ.

Paper Title 3

"Bubo Men"? Depictions of Plague Buboes in Late Medieval Medical Diagrams

Presenter 3 Name

Lori Jones

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Ottawa

Start Date

10-5-2018 10:00 AM

Session Location

Sangren 1730

Description

All of these papers look at different communities approach to the Plague, the Black Death. Speakers will be looking at Jewish communities in Italy, Catholic communities in southern France, and late medieval medical illustrators.

Michelle Ziegler, Organizer