For Communal Health and the Common Good: Social Control and Political Authority in Late Medieval Towns

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Eugene Smelyansky; Esther Liberman Cuenca

Organizer Affiliation

Washington State Univ.; Fordham Univ.

Presider Name

Joshua Ravenhill

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of York

Paper Title 1

Plague, Health, and Civic Order in Late Medieval Valencia

Presenter 1 Name

Abigail Agresta

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Queen's Univ. Kingston

Paper Title 2

Managing Health and Governing the Sick in Essen's Leper Hospital

Presenter 2 Name

Lucy Barnhouse

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Wartburg College

Paper Title 3

Oath-Taking and the "Common Good" in Medieval and Early Modern British Towns

Presenter 3 Name

Esther Liberman Cuenca

Paper Title 4

A Rich City on Poor Soil: Late Medieval Nuremberg and the Rhetoric of Scarcity

Presenter 4 Name

Eugene Smelyansky

Start Date

10-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 2355