Florence under siege: surviving plague in an early modern city
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 261
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9780300196344
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book has evolved over more than 20 years of research. It is based on extensive work of thousands of unpublished and published sources in libraries and archives in Florence, especially the State Archives. It is a multi-layered, interdisciplinary account of the experience of plague in one city from public health, demographic and topographical analysis to religion. Detailed analysis of over 550 court records provides a vivid recreation of the real impact of regulation on city, neighbourhood, street and family. More broadly, the book re-assesses the effectiveness of public health policies in Italy and Europe.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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